Hexbear’s domain has expired and the admins can’t get ahold of the original registar. Currently up for auction at 20 bids and $550.

https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

Edit: Their new domain is chapo.chat. Probably should let admins know so they can defederate them again.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    Hmm.

    I assume that they could refederate under a new domain name, but I have no idea how the Threadiverse deals with an instance changing its domain name. Probably not well.

    • Draconic NEO@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      132·
      6 hours ago

      That’s going to be a nightmare honestly if they do. Since there are so many Servers now with a big stick in their ass about defederation and only Defederated Hexbear after a lot of persuasion. This will probably end up giving their instance a second chance on many instances which defederated them before.

      @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] We may want to be on the lookout for their new domain whenever they migrate to it.

      Edit: Their new domain is chapo.chat, we should probably block them before they try to refederate with us and spam our users.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11·
        6 hours ago

        I was less thinking “they might become refederated and have content reach instances that wanted to defederate” and more “what happens at a protocol and database level if one just changes a domain name, updates the X.509 certificate, and then refederates?” I mean, I don’t know how other instances deal with that, whether it can create problems. IIRC from past discussion, there are user keys somewhere in the protocol, and I assume that those would now be identical and collide across old and new instances, for one…

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        113·
        4 hours ago

        Please stop @ing the admins. We know about this. We will defederate if necessary.

        Edit:

        It appears that sh.itjust.works is not on the allowlist for chapo.chat. Just in case, we have added them to our blocklist anyway.