• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    21·
    9 days ago

    As @Sunshine@lemmy.ca mentioned it’s now at $505.

    What’s up with j_s_0e6b87? (Let’s call them JS). If they really want the address that’s the wrong way to go - bidding too high, too early, too often, and in a bidding war against everyone else. A better approach is to wait until the last hours and then try to snip it.

    Unless their goal is to raise the prices this way?

    EDIT: currently $676. JS is in a bid war with TB (t_b_2a08d7), a newcomer. 🍿

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
      15·
      9 days ago

      Wouldn’t it be better to agree whatever bit yall want to do with the domain name and spend the money on something more productive? Here’s a father trying to buy his kid a new leg after Israel blew it off.

      I speak for all of hexbear when I say the domain isn’t worth that much, and losing it to capitalism is a funny bit, redirect it to /r/neoliberal or the wikipedia article on economics or the Black Book of Communism or something. Maybe declare Juan Guaidó the interim president of hexbear and redirect to his twitter.

      Losing it to some anticommunist “left” weirdo to flex how much money they are willing to waste on an internet grudge instead of helping literally anyone is less funny.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        10·
        9 days ago

        I’m j_s_0e6b87 aka JS. Linking r/neoliberal? Pfffft, not even close! I want to Make Hexbear Great Again. It’ll talk about the wonders of NATO, and how Israel is doing the right thing (if you disagree you’re Antisemitic and a living proof of the horseshoe theory). I also want to denounce the horrors of mayocide and shitty image reactions, plus insert the Nazi 14 words there otherwise it’s literally 1984. (Just kidding.)

        Okay, serious now. I don’t know what’s up with this bidding war; this shit is weird. Currently the highest bid is at US$710, that’s 200x more than I have in my wallet*. And it’s perfectly possible that the bidders are all doing it for different reasons: perhaps they believe that it had enough traffic to justify the price, or they want to recover it for your instance, or they are indeed in some weird vendetta.

        And if it’s a vendetta it could be for a thousand reasons. It could be anticommunism, but it could be as well some HB user behaving like a wild monkey outside your home instance and getting someone pissed enough to do this stupid shit.

        *R$20, or roughly US$3.50. Yup. If I had some money I’d gladly donate to Karim.

        • chickentendrils@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          I mean they just try to collect the highest bid and then ban you if you don’t pay. I’m thinking it’s just someone fucking around.

          Edit: yeah I’m guessing this is it. If you social engineer support and pretend to be them… Seems like John Smith is the bidders’ name on the site, before they turned me away.

    • TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      JS has bid 26 times now without missing a beat. It’s up to $2,345. That’s insane… and with 8 days left! Like bruhh what?? I refuse to believe they genuinely want to purchase it vs just driving up the price.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        5·
        9 days ago

        It’s a popcorn fest for everyone! Including Hexbear users, they clearly don’t give a fuck about the address itself.

        My guesses are, in order:

        1. Same as you, they’re just driving up the price. They’ll stop bidding near the end.
        2. They genuinely want the address because they have some really bad bone to pick against HB, and they have more than enough money to waste on it.
        3. Some really clueless HB user wants the address, even if their own admins said to not bother.
      • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Same, it’s going to be an intense 9 days from now on. The finale is a great mystery as to how will everything turn out. What will be the final price? Will people cancel their bids? What will be shown on the new site? Who’s the one bidding? Who will win? And all the drama and arguing in the meantime too. Lemmy’s going to be busy.