I think it's no longer federating with ml. It's so quiet now. I'd just gotten so used to all the farts
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Wow the admin drama there is truly spectacular as this isn't by any means the first big thing. The fact they couldn't get contact with this person and just merrily let the timer tick down on website expiration without putting plans into place within a week of the expiry or at least saying something to the community 24 hours before it happened is not a good look.
That domain is GONE. If the reactionaries from other instances or channers or youtubers don't spot this and drop a ton of money on it to "own" the commies, still have to contend with some reseller grabbing it because of its connection to a memecoin or because of previous website rankings and wanting to squat it to attempt to turn a profit. The only thing that can be said is at least right now USAID and all the other ghouls are having their bank accounts frozen and in full panic mode so I don't think any of them or their think tank friends are likely to dump 10k on it.
Edit: Just checked and it actually expired on the 12th of January. Their registrar even gave them a 1 month grace period to re-up and during that time no one noticed, no one put plans into place. So it wasn't like "oh they'll renew on time", it was a month of the person failing to renew on time or even in the grace period and either no one noticing or everyone assuming this was fine that they'd missed their re-registration deadline and were on borrowed time.
Honestly, the root of every struggle session that community has had recently all comes down to how much that admin team enjoys LARPing as the Western stereotype version of a Communist Party politburo: as opaque as a black box. Evidently, it's caused a birds of a feather problem, where the admins find communication challenges even among themselves and attracted the types that would withhold critical site information from each other like domain credentials, brushing the others off with disingenuous assurances that "they'll definitely renew the domain, trust." And the others apparently just went "okay" and waited all the way until the time ran out.
The best case scenario is that some rent-seeking site traffic squatter buys out the domain because it could easily be weaponized by a hostile reactionary freak aware of the site's demographic to maliciously IP grab or phish as disgusting ideological revenge. Plenty of the users take multi-month or even years-long hiatuses from the site and there would be no channels to notify them by if they return and type in "hexbear.net." There really should have been a front page permanent top banner blaring 24/7 that the domain might be lost and at least familiarizing people with the "chapo.chat" mirror from the moment they knew this could be a possibility since at least September.
The one possible upside of this is that with the site management being the way it is, I'd say that possibility of the site being some fed honeypot has definitely gone down a few notches.
The chapo.chat domain is also owned by the same person I believe and that expires in June. This is a hilariously bad clusterfuck. I've been there since day 1 and managed to dodge all the site drama.
Had no idea that it got this bad behind the scenes and this should be a wake up call to the community that we need to have a more open admin team and protocols in place for passing on ownership if something goes down.
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This is one of the things that bugs me about the design of a lot of the internet. Far too much that ultimately comes down to one single person, with zero accountability process. And by accountability I don't even mean about bad actors, necessarily, more just not being able to hold someone to anything. Being hyperdependent on one or a few people continuing to show up and keep at what they were doing for stuff that can impact hundreds, thousands, or more. I don't know what the answer is there because it's hard to have accountability and a stable structure in disjointed borderline anonymous environments, but it has long bothered me.
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RIP. It will be a miracle if they can get that domain back.
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Another salute to my Lemmygrad comrades for being the place to turn every time Hexbear goes down.
We're honestly so lucky to have Lemmygrad as comrades.
🐀 🫡
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USAID shutdown.
Joking aside I hope this gets fixed. I desperately need to shitpost about the bill to acquire Greenland and name it Red, White, and Blueland.
I know this meme can be kinda edgy, but I actually enjoyed some Hexbear communities I watched on my lurking.
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USAID frozen and hexbear instantly down? 
Hexbear just died? Wow. I didn't know that...it led an amazing life. What else can you say? It was an amazing site, whether you agree or not. It was an amazing site who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that.
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If this isn't resolved then it is, and will continue to be, the worst news of 2025.
Communism has been defeated. I can hear Kissinger laughing through his mouth full of piss and shid.
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Time to change domain and pretend to be libs to infiltrate their shitty instances again! 
they struck down hexbear
Seems like the domain registrar account was compromised. Hopefully it's just that and nothing more.
Whoever owns the domain needs to contact the registrar ASAP. It's possible they can undo this.
Socialism on one instance? Is it happening? (JK I hope the domains come back up)
The admin who owned the domain stepped down then disappeared without handing over the account or domain. It’s up for auction now unfortunately. But at least we can access the server still using chapo.chat or a direct IP connection
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The chapo.chat url still works
Capturing just in case:
$ dig +short chapo.chat
37.187.73.130
$
wtf?
We're being Perestroika'd! We're being Perestroika'd! Help!
Never thought I'd live to see the fall of Hexbearistan, this is truly the blackest reaction. 😔
I have no superior to relieve me of my duty, you killed them all.Then there must be a Gorbachev and Yeltsin within your ranks! 
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Hey sorosfootsoldier! I made an alt here because of this...hey everyone else! 👋
yeah this shit sucks dude. I want my fucking emojis back.
Hey comrade. I just set my theme to vaporwave and it almost feels like home.
I’m still on it. Probably not for long but we’ll see
If you put 172.67.220.135 in your hosts file as hexbear.net and www.hexbear.net (and your browser hasn't cached the redirect), the site is still running. Accessing the IP directly won't work. So it's just a DNS problem. But it's not good. Hopefully the registrar can reverse it because it looks hacked.
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This was not the bit idea to act on hexbearians
Chapo.chat seems to work still, just adding confirmation.
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