hexbear.net is on sale for auction
hexbear.net is on sale for auction
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
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Bidding ends in 9 days.
Edit: Current bid is up to
$305$505$676$710$1920$2345As @[email protected] mentioned it's now at $505.
What's up with j_s_0e6b87? (Let's call them JS). If they really want the address that's the wrong way to go - bidding too high, too early, too often, and in a bidding war against everyone else. A better approach is to wait until the last hours and then try to snip it.
Unless their goal is to raise the prices this way?
EDIT: currently $676. JS is in a bid war with TB (t_b_2a08d7), a newcomer. 🍿
JS has bid 26 times now without missing a beat. It's up to $2,345. That's insane.. and with 8 days left! Like bruhh what?? I refuse to believe they genuinely want to purchase it vs just driving up the price.
It's a popcorn fest for everyone! Including Hexbear users, they clearly don't give a fuck about the address itself.
My guesses are, in order:
- Same as you, they're just driving up the price. They'll stop bidding near the end.
- They genuinely want the address because they have some really bad bone to pick against HB, and they have more than enough money to waste on it.
- Some really clueless HB user wants the address, even if their own admins said to not bother.
Theres also the possibility it's the owner of the scamcoin which is also named hexbear
Unlikely. As I mentioned elsewhere, the last transaction of said coin was 886d ago, and it's priced at zero. That coin is dead.
aw that would've been funny
Not going to lie, it would.
Unless someone is doing a very elaborate and well executed bit (not completely out of the question....) It might be hex.com bidding on it https://chapo.chat/post/4470270
The funny is back on
That post in Chapo Chat is clearly a joke/troll, from a local user there. They're tagging pronouns correctly and in a rather standard way, replying to the most inane comments, "confusing" Marx with Max...
Plus if Hex owner[s] were annoyed with stuff associated with their coin, they'd go after the hexbear.io defunct coin too.
Trust me, I've been trolling online communities for 30 years. I still miss my Yahoo! Answers trolls. I can recognise another troll from a single misplaced pixel!Yeah they let it slip towards the end lol
Same, it's going to be an intense 9 days from now on. The finale is a great mystery as to how will everything turn out. What will be the final price? Will people cancel their bids? What will be shown on the new site? Who's the one bidding? Who will win? And all the drama and arguing in the meantime too. Lemmy's going to be busy.
Wouldn't it be better to agree whatever bit yall want to do with the domain name and spend the money on something more productive? Here's a father trying to buy his kid a new leg after Israel blew it off.
I speak for all of hexbear when I say the domain isn't worth that much, and losing it to capitalism is a funny bit, redirect it to /r/neoliberal or the wikipedia article on economics or the Black Book of Communism or something. Maybe declare Juan Guaidó the interim president of hexbear and redirect to his twitter.
Losing it to some anticommunist "left" weirdo to flex how much money they are willing to waste on an internet grudge instead of helping literally anyone is less funny.
I'm j_s_0e6b87 aka JS. Linking r/neoliberal? Pfffft, not even close! I want to Make Hexbear Great Again. It'll talk about the wonders of NATO, and how Israel is doing the right thing (if you disagree you're Antisemitic and a living proof of the horseshoe theory). I also want to denounce the horrors of mayocide and shitty image reactions, plus insert the Nazi 14 words there otherwise it's literally 1984. (Just kidding.)
Okay, serious now. I don't know what's up with this bidding war; this shit is weird. Currently the highest bid is at US$710, that's 200x more than I have in my wallet*. And it's perfectly possible that the bidders are all doing it for different reasons: perhaps they believe that it had enough traffic to justify the price, or they want to recover it for your instance, or they are indeed in some weird vendetta.
And if it's a vendetta it could be for a thousand reasons. It could be anticommunism, but it could be as well some HB user behaving like a wild monkey outside your home instance and getting someone pissed enough to do this stupid shit.
*R$20, or roughly US$3.50. Yup. If I had some money I'd gladly donate to Karim.
I mean they just try to collect the highest bid and then ban you if you don't pay. I'm thinking it's just someone fucking around.
Edit: yeah I'm guessing this is it. If you social engineer support and pretend to be them... Seems like John Smith is the bidders' name on the site, before they turned me away.
That's going to be crazy
Now I wanna raise a bunch of money to buy it and use it as a good way to document shitty behavior on the internet.
To the moon. Still 9 days to go, now $676
Can you share a link to the auction?
It's in the post's body.
Oh...I guess I'm an idiot then...
If the highest bidder refuses to pay up, will it pass to the next one down?
Cause I feel lile some of those higher bids would just evaporate and it'd make perfect sense to place say a 500 bid rn (1920) just in case, if you were so inclined to decorate the domain after aquisitionEdit: And also it would mean you could start a bidding war with hexbeareans to drive up their cost to the maximum they would pay, without any risk to yourself as long as you remained anonymous
Supposedly they don't bid.