really, really bad blood against Hexbear.

Could be some crypto bros. Apparently they share name with some crypto currency

The other possibility is that its 2 hexbearites who are trying to save the site, not realising they are bidding against each other. Would be pretty silly if that was it.

It's 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.

I bet j_s_0e6b87 has eggs at every meal

Didn’t their post say that domain name is also in the same situation?

Fuck El Chapo, fuck his sons, and fuck his shitty criminal enterprise.

I noticed the same - it is strange. And a lot of times they're raising the prices much more than necessary to outbid each other.

In special, half of the bids come from a single person, j_s_0e6b87. They're bidding since the beginning, and seem to follow no strategy - sometimes bidding $10 more than the top bid, sometimes way more. Either they're stinking rich to the point they don't care about the money, or they don't really care about the address, and want to inflate its price for whoever actually buys it.

The bidding gets extra time when people place a bid near the end, so you can't just snipe it.

there's no way these aren't troll bids.

An extremely outspoken instance filled with people who simp for fascist dictatorships but ultimately consider themselves communist and some socialists.

Most would call them "tankies" due to their willful denial of the 198(9) Tiananmen square massacre as "western propaganda" despite non-western sources agreeing it happened outside of China.

Imagine if super outspoken trump supporters had an instance and spent a lot of time trying to lecture other people about how they're wrong when nobody spoke to them in the first place, then when presented with facts and logic they would respond with gifs, emojis, and a lot of claims that you're a CIA front/shill.

Hexbear is (was) an instance that's become infamous for the awful behaviour of its users in other instances in the past. They are mainly authoritarian communists (often known as Tankies) who like to yell at people for having different opinions and especially love to troll.

To expand on this for those who weren't around during the days when they were federated with most instances, Hexbear's users are needlessly hostile towards anyone who disagrees with them, they had a bug that caused their emotes to become oversized on Lemmy which quickly flooded threads when their users spam them, and they have a reputation for brigading threads to "dunk" on people. They also really like to flood threads with graphic images of pigs shitting on their own testicles, because that's definitely what normal people do.

It's worth noting that they don't federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they do so in order to dunk on people and "dismantle Western propaganda" and "plant the beans of truth in other instances fields" and in general act in bad faith. Worse, their instance admins did little to stop this.

They were defederated from many instances for good reason, as their behaviour drove away a lot of new users. A lot of Hexbear users have alts on lemmy.ml and midwest.social, so the defederation doesn't stop their users from continuing to be dickheads.

And if you'd like some receipts, I have plenty of examples. Best viewed from an instance that federates with Hexbear, so you can see their behaviour for yourself.

https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347 https://lemm.ee/post/4543536 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2017079 https://lemmy.world/post/2498330

Edit: A tankie already got upset about this post, love to see it! :P

Specifically authoritarian communists, to be clear. They aren't fighting for everyone to have what they need, they just want to be leaders of repressed people.

An instance full of toxic tankies who spam and brigade as their hobby. Nobody liked them except some tankies on lemmy.ml.

Hell yeah, we need more ultrarightwing fascist sites!

They literally all do this if you lapse on paying your registration fees. It's not like they seized it for other reasons and then auctioned it. Unlike whichever one we saw a while back seizing a fediverse domain for "CSAM" which literally amounted to a drawing of two high-school age girls kissing.