Hello users of hexbear, or shall i say chapo.chat, we fucked up, and i fucked up like three times making this post.
Yes, hexbear.net has expired. Yes, we were aware of this possibility. We have gradually lost contact with the access owner (prior admin) for the domain registration. We attempted to make a migration plan, but we were disarmed by the reappearance of the party in question in September 2024 and repeated assurances that they would a) transfer credentials and b) continue payments until they were able to do the former.
We accept full responsibility for this. We should have been more aggressive about this and continued our alternative despite these reassurances. This is our fuck up, and we can’t offer anything besides our continued apologies and our plan of action going forward and an explanation of what happened:
Over the time of chapo.chat and hexbear.net the admins that purchased the domain, established the donation accounts, and the server accounts have left. One of the primary admins has gone inactive and returned many times, over a year ago some of the newer admins began asking the older admins to give full access to the domain, servers, and donations. These requests were not met, despite warnings of this exact event.
At the moment we do not have access to hexbear.net and there is a strong chance we will not get it back without participating in the auction, which is already over $300. Choosing to abandon the hexbear.net domain will cause federation problems and considerable technical issues which would lead to potential extended downtime.
During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts. This would be distributed among a number of admins so that we can prevent this from happening again.
Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.
I will do my best to answer questions
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Pinning @piggy@hexbear.net comment:
True Hexbear Fedayeen have hexbear hard coded in their hosts file and are currently enjoying their
On OSX/Linux just add
37.187.73.130 hexbear.netto the bottom of/etc/hostsand you’ll get your back.On Windows its at
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hostsOn Phones it’s much harder so all your
are lost.I’d like to reignite the
struggle session to cover for CARCOSA on this oneTHERE IS TOO MUCH BEANISPOSTING ON THIS SITE
Adding a static DNS entry on your router also works.
Call me silly, tell me to touch grass, but hexbear has been a big part of my life for a few years now.
I don’t want to see anyone go away, and i have faith we’ll be back up in whatever form before long. Yall have given me so much over the years, and been by my side as I grow, through all my ups and downs.
Idk, feels like i had more to say, but lost my train of thought. Outside hangin with the corgi rn.
I love you all, and can’t wait until we’re back in whatever form.
O7
I couldn’t agree more. This site has such a palpable culture of solidarity permeating even the silliest bits and struggle sessions. It’s a safe space on an internet that largely lacks them, and a social site without the corporate overlords breathing down our necks. I love this place and hope it makes it <3
Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net
Hexbear.chat
dialectics
Actually not bad
FINALLY! Finally it is time for hereshowberniecanstill.win
i’m with the folks wanting different variations of hexbear (.zone/.space/.chat/.red)
Would make it a lot easier for people, who are currently in the dark about current events, finding this place again.
Obvious option would be hexbear with an alternative to .net, like .su or something. Although sometimes .su gets auto flagged as malicious since there isn’t a Soviet Union anymore, idk
we could maybe get a cn or hk domain that may get us unbanned in china
I think the best option is some variation of hexbear as opposed to a whole new name. The only problem I could see from that is if whoever ends up buying the original domain redirects it to something horrible. Probably wouldn’t want a similar domain name in that instance.
I have a friend who is willing to help us get hexbear.su. I don’t have a Russian passport, so the stability will be an issue, but we could get it for the bit. Should I pursue this?
Never mind, I didn’t realize that an Amerikkkan passport works for .su
Chapo.chat
this domain name has the same issue that caused the hexbear.net outage
hexbear.red
communismwill.win
donothing.win
beanis.chat
Anything in the
.cn,.vn, or.lanamespaces would be funny, for obvious reasons..cnis quite expensive, about $32/year, and requires you to either prove your identity or use a registrar (like 101domains) who will register it under their contact information for you..vnand.laare much cheaper and are available to anyone.Pick your path, we’re either Chinese, Vietnamese, or Laos bots.
—So are you Chinese or Vietnamese?
—We’re Laotian.
—The ocean? What ocean?
Is .su available?
Yes, but it requires you to verify your identity with pictures of your passport which I’m sure no one wants to do for security reasons.
hexbear dot
chapo dot chat
- littleredbook.shop
- littleredbook.exchange
- littleredbook.study
stacking.rocks
Redirects to bluebear.ltd, is this some hexbearian’s site?
Hmm. Hexbeanis.net?
Hexbear dot Chat
Hasanabifan.site
ursusfront
hexbear.social
exbear.netis available and you could make ith.exbear.netexbear.net septbear.chat hexchap.chat
Hexbear dot io is a bitcoin website btw.
- zheleznogorsk.net
- honeybear.space
- honeybear.site
- hexbean.net
With honeybear, honey.tube could be bought for around $100 but the yearly cost will be around $22.
Are you a bee?
sickobear dot net
i don’t have a specific name in mind, but what about something to do with orcas?
there is already a lemmy instance orcas.enjoying.yachts
netbear.hex
Are we able to use .SU?
Chapo.chat
Hear me out… icosahedronbear.net
itsall.fed
very much hoping we go off hexbear, if we do im changing the deal i made tjo whatever the new logo is and tbh i really would like it to have some sort of communist imagery in it instead of it being a cartoon hexagon bear lol.
i like redbear the most out of anything that i’ve seen proposed, and the .lgbt or .su for the extension
it’s a shame the .baseball domain hasn’t launched yet that would have been kinda funny
reposting my comment here
I genuinely think Hexbear is pretty shit of a name (and always have sorry) especially since we share it with a shitcoin. But tbh if the name is so important to federation, surely we could crowdfund the $300 or whatever the registar’s trying to squeeze out of us for the domain. MutualAid has led me to believe this could work. edit: nevermind I see the auction is now up to $505.00 which is insane but who knows maybe this is one of our comrades doing their part to secure the domain for us!
Chapo.chat will probably be cheaper when it expires so honestly my vote is to reclaim chapo.chat using crowdfunding
BernieCanStillWin.org is my backup vote.
Hexowl.fart
hexbear.zone
hexbear.chat
There’s one thing I’m sure of, when this is all over, “visit hexbear.net” is going to be added as an emote
We finally know what :mystery-emote: is supposed to look like:
Doesn’t seem worth it to buy the domain again and it sounds like we’re looking at downtime no matter what.
On the bright side we have the opportunity to absolutely lose our fucking minds over renaming the site again.
Is it a coincidence that Matt Christman rejoined the podcast this year? And ChaCha rises again?
I think not. Trust the plan.
Wait shit he’s back on?
Yeah, although only to interject a few comments here and there
Personally fond of onesixone (numeric abbreviation for anti-fascist action in case yall didn’t know) as a name. Just goes hard imo
On the bright side we have the opportunity to absolutely lose our fucking minds over renaming the site again.
I still remember making my account intended as a bit campaigning for the site name to stay chapo and then just never making another account
USAID funding gets slashed
Hexbear mysteriously loses access to the site owner
hmmm
The news megathread actually started getting predictions right for the first time in it’s existence, the feds had to shut us down lol. Not worth funding anymore.
I called it.
Please don’t spend a single cent recovering the domain. The closing bid is probably going to be >$1000, which most of you probably couldn’t afford anyways. What’s done is done.
The way forward is to accept the lost of the domain name, come up with internal processes to make sure that retiring admins have to fork over the credentials, and either come up with another site name or reuse chapo.chat. Please don’t try to attempt to outbid these libs and definitely do not make some humiliating backroom deal with those libs over the administration of this site for the sake of getting the domain back.
chapo.chat has the same lack of access problem that hexbear.net has so i do not want to rely on it
At least we outlived kissinger
lmao
Genocide Joe’s presidency and Kopmala’s kampaign too
Letting the hexbear domain ownership expire as a joke is not OK
😔
letting the domain expire as a joke was not ok
It kinda was
When this happened did you say “oops” as that’s what I’d do
I’d also consider a ruh r’oh raggy
D’oh!
pouring one out for all of the hexbears who don’t know how to reconnect with the site
hope they find their way back to us some day
Omg this is so embarrassing.
Seriously
Just glad no one got arrested probably.
lmao, I guess it’s time for bean dot is
Biggest struggle session ever incoming.
