Surprised you haven't heard, it's a whole big thing. They lost access to their domain and shut down federation while it gets sorted out. Last I heard they have the domain back and will refederate once some other technical shit is in place. Try !HexbearEmbassy@lemmygrad.ml for updates. I miss them too.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After losing and regaining their domain name, it’s been defederated from everyone for weeks.

$ curl -sw\\n https://hexbear.net/api/v3/federated_instances
{}
$

They’re still ironing out refederation details: How should Hexbear federate?

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How they recovered the domain? They paid the extortion bid?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol you missed a good one

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Whoops!"

[–] hexbearstanaccount04@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Hexbear had an, uh, incident

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

I also miss our dope-ass bear shaped comrades 🥺

I hope they manage to refederate soon.

[–] some_guy 1 points 1 month ago

Their domain expired. The person who could renew it dipped. They regrouped at http://chapo.chat/, which I don’t believe to be federated, but I haven’t checked. Here’s the explainer:

https://hexbear.net/post/4468531

Oh, looks like they regained control of the domain as it’s getting forwarded from this link to their old domain. I’m glad for them.