Did they end up choosing block list or allow list? I hope it was the former. Allowlist will exclude small instances and harm federation diversity.

The most anticapitalist instance getting a .com domain would be hilarious

But there gotta be more to the story. Was the registrar being “shady” as @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de said? Why did federation take so long?

The link is helpful. Thanks!

Thanks! The link is helpful.

Look like they got the domain back a while ago. Wonder why federation took so long.

Sorry I should have clarified: not looking for Hexbear lore in general. I have seen a lot of Hexbear content, so I have a solid understanding on the site and the users. Don’t want to start a debate about that here because that debate always turn nasty.

What I am looking for is: what happened in the past month-ish? How did you all lost your domain? How and when did you get it back? Why did it take so long for federation to be back? Is there any other change made to the site during this downtime?