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.
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 DMsimpersonate 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.
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.
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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.
yep, it’s still a big fucking problem.
fair point, I hadn’t considered this
Plus we have to update all the meme slop to have a big ❌ over the old domain. Danger lurks around ever corner.
No the most cringe thing would be to change the domain to herturn.net and turn it into a Hillary fansite
What do you mean turn it into? Isn’t that what this is??
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.
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
I never understood this. The people on that podcast never did anything problematic and I’d even go as far to say that we lost hundreds of thousands of people regularly exposed to /r/chapotraphouse when it switched to this site + all the drama with admins and mods leaving. I just watched from the side like I’ve done my entire life lol
It was certainly by no means revolutionary but I’m willing to say it had potential as a leftist hub and to introduce people to non-state department mandated talking points
Damn writing this all out, I’m just seeing how a lot of these failures can be chalked up to infighting in one way or another. Hate to say it but this is why the right is so strong
Well, the main thing that happened was that we wanted to make a safe place for trans users
The early days were pretty wackadoo when it came down to dealing with transphobia, lots of trans users were getting harassed and a lot of it was going on with long-time users from r/cth
Had to put our foot down, distance ourselves from those old days
Not to mention, the right only has a strong presence because libs cower before them
Every time they start getting power, they start eating their own
Just have to look at all the various Nazi and KKK splinter groups and how they all try to kill each other over the most minute gibberish
Absolutely. There’s no need to spend hundreds of bucks keeping a specific name. Spend the money on cat treats instead
What is the action at so far?
Here’s the link. JS and MN are in a bidding war over it, I certainly hope neither of them are us because I’m pretty sure 99% of the people here would rather that money go to mutual aid.
Who are JS and MN?
no idea, that’s just the alias that the auction website is showing for the two top bidders.
505 dollars, mainly one guy driving the price up rn.
Idk losing the site in the first place was pretty cringe
What if we’re all just as annoying as possible to the company auctioning it until they give it to us?
Also, we all know someone’s handler is just going to hand over a credit card so that they can buy the site. The question is, who actually gets it? It’ll probably be some annoying radlib performative bs about tankies that was well worth the $69,420 that was spent on it.
I asked this in the big thread, but how will I find the the new site if we lose this domain? How do we communicate if we can’t get into this domain? I don’t really know how the Internet works lol
catch me in the nato.com forums i guess
