• @[email protected]
      1•4 months ago

      For me, both redirect to chapo.
      With different messages on top that aren’t friendly to hexbear.
      WTF is going on here?

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        5•4 months ago

        Hexbear has taglines that contain some of the funniest things said about Hexbear, or just funny in general. This is standard for Hexbear, if you refresh the page the taglines change.

    • Shadow
      34•4 months ago

      DNS caching at play. The registrar has pointed it to their own nameservers, and that gets cached in lots of places.

      • @[email protected]
        10•4 months ago

        Ooooh. That explains it. Yeah, it just switched over to the redirect to sav.com for me.

        I think they’re fucked. Because of how Lemmy does federation, there’s no way that I know of to switch the domain for an existing instance without changing the name and making everyone resubscribe to everything. Although, they probably talk mostly to one another so they could probably change the name to hexbear.social or something with just a little temporary disruption if they don’t feel like coming up with $300. Personally, I definitely wouldn’t want to cooperate with the domain extortion, I’d rather change domains.

        • Shadow
          4•4 months ago

          They should be able to still recover the domain. From the top of the page “To renew this domain, please sign in to your Sav.com Account”.

          • @[email protected]
            10•4 months ago

            I think they now have to win the auction, though. It’s $300 to renew for the year currently, and still rising, instead of the $12 it was going to be.

            I do not think anyone should bid the price up. Hexbear may be a bunch of cunts, but all you’re doing with that is giving money to some criminals who are much worse than the Hexbear people.

            • r.EndTimesEnglish
              1•4 months ago

              How are they criminals? Its the domain selling site lol, they didn’t pay a cheapass 12$ renewal with a years notice, its their own fault?

        • @[email protected]
          7•4 months ago

          Yep. Servers save federation keys per domain name. Not that they were really federated with most big instances anymore anyway.