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Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

1w ago

Re-Federation

Hi folks!

As most of you have already noticed, the technical issues blocking federation have finally been worked out, and we have refederated with Lemmygrad! Federation with other instances will come after we have confirmed no lingering ill effects from the retvrn-to-chapochat period, likely within the day. The change happened ~12 hours ago, but some further cajoling was necessary to get the servers actually talking again. (Edit: re-federation with other instances has begun. Edit 2: federation now enabled for all previously fed'ed instances)

Lemmygrad comrades, we are so happy to be back

(Thanks for making this graphic @TheImmortalScienceML@lemmygrad.ml )

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Numbers go UP, STONKS, to the moon

It's the lemmyverse's own Elbe day here on March 30, 2025!
- Shush I know I copy-pasted my own comment

Let's fucking gooooo hexbear was half my browsing content

(pretend this is Lenin)
- I’m sorry
  (Not that sorry)
  
  Yoko should be stalin

Missed you all

Very happy to see my hexbear comrades back in the fediverse. Lemmy was libbing out way too hard, I left reddit years ago and would hate to see our beloved platform turn into another reddit. All hail the dirtbag left and hexbear!

Nice, it was starting to get lonely in here without the lost libs wandering in and giving us fresh meat and slop. Immediate post federation Hexbear was probably the most fun I've ever had on this site.
Edit: Also welcome back to our lemmygrad comrades!

🥲 Our peoples have reunified once again.

Hibernation complete... where the grubs and fish at?

Fedposting is back

This is where the fun begins (again).

I’VE MISSED YOU LOVELY PEOPLE
- Missed you too

Finally, we missed you guys!

The fabled Tankie Cabal[TM] is back and even more Tankie[TM] than ever, bless us all

I'm very glad the channels with our emoji-spamming comrades are open again.
- We do have the best emojis in the Lemmyverse.

A momentous occasion

When I first heard of hexbear I thought it was a server full of beefy hairy men
- Is it not? ; )
- hello
  
  🥺

I guess some of my posts that should have been crossposts between lemmygrad and hexbear either haven't fully synced, or maybe won't automatically sync due hexbear federation going down for a few months. Would be nice if lemmy had this feature if it doesn't already.

Happy for you.
Or since I've been learning some French, I can say: Je suis contente pour vous.

I had no idea what was going on I heard that someone else took the domain name and I thought that's what happened
- The domain name was originally registered with Sav.com, a particularly scummy registrar known for sniping and auctioning off dropped domains. As it turns out, they aren't any kinder to their own customers than anyone else, and without sufficient warning (seemingly in violation of ICANN policies), they sent our domain to be auctioned off when a scheduled payment didn't go through, kicking off a frenzy of anti-communists trying to buy it.
  Specifically, a registrar operating in good faith will generally disable resolution of the domain after it has expired, to alert the owner/users that it is expired and in the grace period to renew, but Sav does not, preferring to take domain owners by surprise and let the domain fully expire, forcing them to compete on the open auction to get their domain back.
  Somehow, we managed to transfer it out of Sav to a less scummy registrar during the auction, recovering the domain for free. However, the 2 weeks or so where we were operating off of chapo.chat as a backup domain ended up causing a lot of technical headaches and roadblocks to re-enabling federation, hence the delay.