On the meta update, a previous admin was able to get the hexbear.net domain back, and we were able to established shared access. We are thankful for everything that they have done as this site would not exist without them, with this shared access the stress of site administration has been lessened.
Awesome news. Lemmy has felt kinda empty and sad lately without them
The “nothing ever happens” gang stays winning, happy to see federation will resume soon. More Leftists federated is a good thing.
That’s good to hear. The domain situation definitly sucked and it saves us the effort to update the banlists to a new domain 😅
thanks for your concern, just a quick aside has there ever been a country that uses solarpunk as an actual political ideology?
Read Desert and look at China’s renewable energy production
Hope Beehaw has the good sense to keep that venomous user base away.
I see more toxicity directed towards Hexbear than from Hexbear, for what it’s worth.
On the upside, they’ll be contained into one place to easily avoid.
please stay on your conservative echo-chamber. makes the transphobes contained and easier to avoid
I’m curious to know if they got the auction stopped or if they had to shell out thousands for it.
They got it back without participating in the auction.
That’s great news.
Comment buried the lede:
We will be enabling federation after redirecting chapo.chat, hexbear.chat, etc. to hexbear.net
apologies i forget that pinned comments / speak as moderator aren’t as clear i’ll edit the original post
do we know yet when re-federation will happen?
Should be today.
during the domain change new accounts created a new table in the database and are associated with @chapo.chat so we are cleaning that up and doing some security-oriented tasks before re-federation
Excellent, really glad that was able to get resolved. We’ve had to deal with domain name issues here too, its an extremely stressful experience that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
Letting the domain name expire was a pretty good bit, still glad to see it’s been worked out.
