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2. When posting screenshots of drama, you must obscure the identity of all the participants.
3. The poster must have a credible post and comment history before submitting a piece of history. This is to avoid sock-puppetry and witch hunts.

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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys, they already switched to chapo.chat, all you're doing is emptying your pockets to give to some criminals.

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck El Chapo, fuck his sons, and fuck his shitty criminal enterprise.

[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You realize this is just the name of the podcast the community spawned from right?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

And largely moved away from, I might add.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it strange that they are out-bidding each other like this when there are over 8 days left. I am not too experienced with bidding, but I thought that the normal strategy was to maybe place a placeholder bid if there is no activity, but more generally one waits until the last second to set a reasonably high bid. Going on a 1v1 with fast out-bidding over a week early seems bad for everyone except the seller. Perhaps someone can explain.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

I noticed the same - it is strange. And a lot of times they're raising the prices much more than necessary to outbid each other.

In special, half of the bids come from a single person, j_s_0e6b87. They're bidding since the beginning, and seem to follow no strategy - sometimes bidding $10 more than the top bid, sometimes way more. Either they're stinking rich to the point they don't care about the money, or they don't really care about the address, and want to inflate its price for whoever actually buys it.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Relevant to note that every other bid comes from the same bidder, j_s_0e6b87. Here's what I'm guessing about them:

  • They likely know about Hexbear, since they were bidding on the address right off the bat.
  • They aren't a domain squatter. A domain squatter would try to minimise the amount of money spent on a domain; and yet they're bidding too early, too frequently, and values considerably higher than the necessary to be the top bidder.
  • They aren't using automated tools, since the the times and values between the others' bids and theirs are too erratic.
  • Either they don't plan to actually win the bid, OR they have lots of money (to the point that US$710 is pocket change for them) and really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

really, really bad blood against Hexbear.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It narrows it down to people from instances that still federated with Hexbear and have money to spend on this stupid shit.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, there are plenty of people on unfederated instances who still obsess endlessly about hexbear.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard to forget an instance that openly threatens to kill you. Hexbear is hateful garbage.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

instance that openly threatens to kill you

Wtf kind of fedilore did I miss 😀

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're exaggerating. Hexbear didn't threaten to kill at all, it was just a warning to class traitors and other would-be counterrevolutionary protesters. The vast majority of the proletariat would never put themselves in such a position.

It's a complete nothingburger.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They literally threatened my life, you're ignorant or paid.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe you shouldn't have been a counter revolutionary chud?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could be some crypto bros. Apparently they share name with some crypto currency

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

It has only 34 holders. That narrows it down... to 34.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

I gave it a check, and apparently it's a dead cryptocoin. CoinGecko doesn't even list it, Etherscan gives it a market cap of $0.00, and the last transaction was 886d ago. Plus they already have a domain.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.

I bet j_s_0e6b87 has eggs at every meal

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.

That's seriously out of touch, check your privilege.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I thought it was a joke.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Update: it's now US$1921.00. Some PP (p_p_822628) is trying to outbid JS (j_s_0e6b87), who has been competing since the start.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's no way these aren't troll bids.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing one of them is a hexbear admin and the other is a troll.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone explain to me what hexbear is?

[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I've been quietly observing hexbear for a while now and I can tell you with relative certainty that people love to straw man them.

Here is an example:

People say they outright deny the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which is not true. They do believe 300 or so people died in that tragic day. What they do deny, though, is that Tank Man himself was run over by a tank and that people where indiscriminately shot and run over by tanks in the square. They believe the shootout occurred not because China is evil, but because some of the protestors decided it was a good idea to start killing unarmed soldiers.

I'm not going to describe in detail hexbear's timeline of events and evidence for it, because I myself do not fully understand it yet. But it seems this video somewhat explains it well.

People insist time and time again that hexbear users believe the massacre never happened to the point where they can't bother explaining themselves anymore because "what's the point if we are just going to get straw manned?"

People also like to call the massacre a "genocide", which is a massive overstatement. In comparison with the kill count of the holocaust, the death toll of the massacre is a rounding error. I would like to kindly ask people to stop calling it a genocide, as it detracts from the meaning and intensity of the word "genocide" when it is miss used like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_genocide_theory


Any who, can't wait for people telling how wrong I am for supporting hexbear despite never once saying they were right.

People say they brigade other instances, but that's just because they are very active. In fact, there are one of the most active instances on Lemmy.


This is not to say hexbear users are angels, far from it. They are known to not mix well with other communities, and their site culture can put people off quite a bit, and understandably so. They all also known for their custom emojis, which is a really neat feature their instance has, but they do like to use an emoji depicting a pig defecating as a way of saying "you take is shit", which is rather unpleasant and quite rude of them.


These are just my thoughts on hexbear anyways. I must say I don't really hyper analyze any instance, so I could be somewhat wrong, but I don't really care too much.


NOTE: right now hexbear is using chapo.chat as their temporary fall back domain.