Auction: https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net
Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure
Update: post from hexbear admin on chapo.chat: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
Stop giving them attention. That’s the only thing they care about. If a tankie wants to have a ‘debate’ with you just say ‘ok’ and move on.
They have no power or any effect on anything. By making them seem bigger than they really are (some niche leftist nutjobs) you only attract new cultists looking to sate their moral superiority kink.
Wait, what??? Isn’t this a hugely active instance? What happened?
https://lemmy.ca/comment/14489378
Apparently they didn’t pay for their registration renewal. Watch out for a flood of displaced tankies, you can usually find them by saying fuck Putin, or fuck Xinnie the pooh, and they’ll just put themselves so you can block them.
Omg I thought you were joking!
(Were you joking? If so, IT’S ALSO REAL! 😂)
multiple examples but here’s a good one: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531/5913648
Note your standard search function won’t work from the home location bc the new instance isn’t federated yet.
Yeah I wasn’t joking 😭
Would make blocking their users a lot easier, at least! It’s like self-reporting that you’re not to be taken seriously.
Capitalism sure isn’t making everything worse all the time and ruining the world wtih zero meaningful incremental reforms amounting to shit or anything 😙
I never claimed otherwise, but go on, chief!
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Hard not to when I got banned for mentioning China has a market economy.
The standard take on the PRC is that it has a Socialist Market Economy, so I doubt that.
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Really? Not according to the modlog.
Alt Account — Blahaj is not federated with Hexbear.
Though sorry to say I can’t give you the username of that alt since I use it to post personal info I don’t want linked with my main (this account).
I have a hard time taking authoritarians seriously, whether they are left wing or right wing.
Don’t get me wrong, sinophobia or russophobia for the sake of it is just dumb, but like the other guy said, if we get banned for having a different opinion on those country’s dictators than they do… Maybe they should just stay in their safe space by themselves, isolated. Just like Russia and China should be sanctioned and isolated for their imperialist bullshit, and just like America should be for its imperialist bullshit.
Also, if they adopt a .cn tld, they’ll lose their domain name again. Not even China wants anything to do with them, hexbear was blocked in China haha.
Hexbear was banned because there is a crypto on https://hexbear.io/ and China banned all crypto. China does not actually care about lemmy so much that they blocked hexbear.
TIL, thank you. Though the reason why China has banned them doesn’t lessen the irony here.
or just look for their obnoxious emojis, which are full color photos of some gross asshole.
Im honestly annoyed by this as I have over 30 communities on hexbear blocked. id really not like to have to do it again
Good news - you can block entire instances on current Lemmy. No need to go community by community.
Bad news - it does nothing about the users. You’ll still see their comments and posts elsewhere.
yeah I read this, and have tried, a bunch of times, to block hexbear on Summit, but it doesn’t seem to work.
I started using the app few days ago, in which way are you blocking the instance? Because AFAIK there are 2 ways to block but I haven’t tried the second one.
I’ve blocked a bunch of instances via Summit and never had a problem. I’ve blocked non-english and NSFW/porn instances. You could try posting in the community [email protected]. It’s been working for be since before lemmy made blocking instances an actual feature.
I’m assuming summit is an app? Try using it through the webui.
yes its an app.
I dont wanna use the webui (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Maybe make a post on their subreddit, [email protected]
You can block entire instances.
Paid registration renewal is inherently capitalist, you deranged westoid.
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How’d I do?
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7/10. Close in spirit, but not cringe enough. And you didn’t follow it with an image reaction.
you forgot to add at least 26 weirdly sized gifs and emojis
And also forgot to yell at them for not reading all 780 pages of theory before commenting.
Not that bad tbh I believed it for a sec
Im assuming the war in ukraine and sanctions slowed down their flow of capital. Moneys probably been diverted to their top tier podcasters and youtubers who actually have an audience. Daddy expects results.
Lmao
They must have lost my bank account info cuz I’m fucking struggling as a trans girl in the US and could really use some Putin or Xi bucks
Trump got back in so the domain holder isn’t interested anymore? Maybe .ml is some CIA honeypot
don’t think I’d give you a dollar for that even if it was signed by Kenny loggins.
Danger Zone!
Hey, what the shit, Loggins!?
Karma
My 3 favorite proposed alternative urls are tank.ie hexbearmoretankie.net and infinity.ai
Holy smokes, that’s it after all those years.
I’ve had that happen to some URLs I own before. Basically, they forgot to renew. Normally you get a grace period but some sketchy domain admins take the lapse as an opportunity to auction off what was originally a worthless address now that it has value.
Looks like it expired last month so they had a 1 month grace period
I found some people alleging the sav.com is sketchy about other aspects of their service. It wouldn’t surprise me if they tactically overreacted to a single missed email, or a single expired credit card, or something like that, to squeeze their client for more money.
I am willing to bet that the contact person is either gone or not checking email. It wouldn’t surprise me if they lost access to the portal.
Ironic that it’s capitalism that’s going to take down Hexbear.
That isn’t ironic. That’s entirely on brand. Ironic would be if they got taken down due to leftist infigh-actually, no, that’s also on brand. I guess if Trump - no, that would also…
…Is this what they mean by “irony-poisoned”?
Yeah but on the other hand it’ll hardly be the first time this community has moved. Looking at the frontpage of chapo.chat the userbase doesn’t seem particularly bothered by the possibility.
We should buy it and turn it into a Lemmy instance that’s pro-capitalism.
I enjoyed the community. Hope they find a new home.
Oh wow, this post reminded me to renew some domains I use.
What was the problem with Hexbear again?
Have you ever been around a child who gets some silly factoid in their head, but it’s completely wrong because children are still learning the very basics of synthesizing the observable world into coherent ideas?
Hexbears are like children who have spent the last six hours explaining to you over and over again that cows can breathe under water.
Most of them are tankies (dumb political ideology) but most people took issue with the fact that they were the most annoying people on Lemmy. Every thread they’d be in would be a collection of the worst takes imaginable and they liked to start arguments with everyone else
Let’s also not forget their emoji spamming either. They absolutely trashed many threads on servers federated with them.
Especially the pig shitting one.
Yup, that’s one of their favorites to spam.
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We just need to add a “person with” on the parenthesis and it will be understandable enough
Absolutely wrong. A tankie is a fake leftist who idolizes authoritarian regimes / leaders
“Tankie” is a caricature. The idea of a tankie is the ideal vision of a McCarthyian Communist. In reality, the overwhelming majority of people labeled as such don’t actually fit that label, it’s more of a way to cast an image of someone’s positions based on, say, support for AES countries, and twist that into the evil Commie Pinko that haunts the dreams of 1960s children in the US.
So, yes, it’s a pejorative, and not one I think is aiding leftists trying to understand the views of others. More often than not it’s used as “commie” was: to shut down conversation and otherize people.
If someone supports authoritarians masquerading as leftists they subscribe to tankie ideology. Sucks for them that it’s a pejorative TOO.
If people don’t like being called it maybe they shouldn’t openly support such behavior.
What makes someone a Leftist, vs an “authoritarian masquerading as a leftist?” What is “tankie ideology?”
JAQ elsewhere. Ample resources to look up.
My late edit had some keywords to can type in if you’re unfamiliar.
So, it’s a perjorative then.
Sure like calling a Nazi a Nazi is technically pejorative. More importantly, it’s a warning identifier to others.
A Nazi is a real thing, there was a Nazi party that ruled a country, and there are still people nowadays who adhere to the ideals of that party.
There was never a “Tankie” party, it’s something that only exists in your head and has no representation in the real world.
It doesn’t have to be a defined party to be an ideology. It’s pretty hilarious y’all are defending authoritarian Stans
So Zante was right.
It’s clearly an ideology as well, which is what I was addressing.
i think its more of a general term, specifically with the focus on large government oversight.
“tankies” don’t like anyone on the left of them
What’s to the left of “everybody to the left of Elizabeth Warren”?
Their users are needlessly hostile towards anyone who disagrees with them, they had a bug that caused their emotes to become oversized on Lemmy which quickly flooded threads when their users spam them, and they have a reputation for brigading threads to “dunk” on people. They also really like to flood threads with graphic images of pigs shitting on their own testicles, because that’s definitely what normal people do.
It’s worth noting that they don’t federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they do so in order to dunk on people and “dismantle Western propaganda” and “plant the beans of truth in other instances fields” and in general act in bad faith. Worse, their instance admins did little to stop this.
They were defederated from many instances for good reason, as their behaviour drove away a lot of new users. A lot of Hexbear users have alts on lemmy.ml and midwest.social, so the defederation doesn’t stop their users from continuing to be dickheads.
And if you’d like some receipts, I have plenty of examples. Best viewed from an instance that federates with Hexbear, so you can see their behaviour for yourself.
https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347 https://lemm.ee/post/4543536 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2017079 https://lemmy.world/post/2498330
Oh wow OK.
Thanks for the detailed explanation and sources.
No problem. I was around when Hexbear was still federated with my instance and saw the worst of it all, so I try to keep people informed. Their behaviour nearly made me leave Lemmy entirely, and no doubt others have because of it.
It’s only a problem if you don’t like having chauvinism and western state propaganda brainworms questioned. As a ND queer communist I have never felt more comfortable and welcome posting than on hexbear. Their mutual aid comm is highly active and an immensely helpful place for many people. It’s an adorable community, they get a bad rap by people that come in arguing in bad faith who then run away to shame the hateful ‘tankies’ on their main instance like this post here.
I’ve seen how they behave in other communities, they didn’t “question” anything, and there’s nothing adorable about them.
Maybe they think pigs shitting on their balls is adorable? Saw a whole lot of that from Hexbears.
That’s their fetish.
That’s not what I saw from what many instance admins have posted. They don’t seem friendly at all.
why not just join and see for yourself? Or dont even need to join, its a public website just browse for a bit
who needs the CIA infiltration manual when tankies will do it to themselves?
Every second bid is J_S. Wonder how high they’ll go
They noticed https://hexbear.net/post/4468531
Link doesn’t work given the domain.
True, this is the new domain https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
Is there a remind me bot on Lemmy? Asking for a friend that might do something financially irresponsibly hilarious at last second if the auction values doesn’t go much higher.
