13h ago

The most cringe thing possible would be paying the extortionate auction to keep the domain.

Just wanted to get this thought out there. Space on the internet is infinite, and changing to a new domain is easy and cheap. Let the people who have poisoned their brains with anti tankie rhetoric pay the DNS landlord hundreds of dollars for the privilege of setting up a redirect to NATO's website or whatever, our money and effort is better spent on literally anything else.

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The reason to pay is not to keep the domain for sentimental reasons or whatever but because it's an actual security risk to allow someone to jack your domain.
A bad actor who has the domain can very easily setup an identical looking site that can capture login attempts along with ips allowing them to put a username to an ip and and with additional resources could put an ip and therefore a user name to a real name.
They could also use the fake site to do all sorts of phishing scams like fake mutual aid requests, linking to external sites that are also honeypots to get more personal info than most would be willing to divulge on hexbear itself and could also ~~send DMs~~ impersonate any user on the site including to scam users on other servers like lemmygrad who might not know what is going on.
It's easily worth a few hundred to prevent some comrades getting scammed and doxxed.
- :this:
  not 100% sure that's true about sending DMs to users on other instances (activitypub uses public key signing to ensure data integrity so I'm assuming they couldn't do so without those keys from our DB), but certainly they could put up a honeypot and try to ID users.
  
  Didn't know that about DMs but the point remains that impersonation is possible and they could trick people into DMing on other platforms by including false matrix IDs in profiles or posts.
- Also if we lose the domain we could lose some users who will never come back and think that we no longer exist. Some of those users could be relying on us for mutual aid and stuff like that.
- fair point, I hadn't considered this

Heh, this will show those loony tankerinos that neoliberalism is king [pays $6,900 for hexbear dot net to redirect it to r/neoliberal]
(The Loony Tankerinos): hehehe infinite domains go brrrrrrr

The dialectical inversion to this is that the most demonic thing a r/destiny user could do is spend like $10,000 on buying it and specifically flaunt that they're doing that instead of doing anything good with the money.

No the most cringe thing would be to change the domain to herturn.net and turn it into a Hillary fansite

If anyone actually drops money on it I suggest we all collectively make fun of them for wasting money
- Well, yeah
  Imagine thinking you're sticking it to us by paying some domain registrar for a name we changed because Chapo.Chat didn't actually reflect our beliefs

Idk losing the site in the first place was pretty cringe

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