2mo ago

returning to lemmy

hey there, returning to lemmy after checking it out like 2 years ago. does it matter what instance i use? currently just using the account i previously made.

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Sort of: Each instance has its own rules, admin(s), and may or may not federate with certain other instances. Some may also be more stable or responsive than others depending on hosting.
My broad advice is to avoid hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml because they are full of tankies/trolls, other than that: Find the instance you like best and feel free to use more than one!
I'm on Mbin these days, but when I was on Lemmy regularly, I liked to favor instances that got their power from renewables
- hexbear didnt renew their domain 🤣
  its now chapo.chat
  
  That redirects to hexbear.net
  
  Seems like they reclaimed it.
  Last I heard, they failed the renewal and it was auctioning at $300 USD
  
  It's really not clear that's what happened. A direct question and there's no real answer: https://hexbear.net/post/4470506
  In the original thread about it there were people joking that the domain renewal didn't get paid after DOGE cut funding.
  But it's just suspicious enough that if I were a user I'd not share any personal info and connect via a VPN...
  
  What happend was:
  Someone posted about them going down.
  I checked their domain, it was down.
  Then someone said they moved to chapo.chat
  I checked and, indeed, they are up and running on the new domain.
  Then, today, I was informed that chapo.chat now redirects to hexbear.net, and hexbear.net is up again.
  
  Yes. But why? I wasn't able to find anything confirming the chain of events that led from an auction at over $2000 with the registration company refusing to cancel it, to Hexbear suddenly having their domain back and everything back to normal.
  
  Wow, weird

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