The admin's should loose access to this domain in the future as well

This thread is irrelevant and can be unsticked, sticky some Megas ffs it's been weeks hexbears are crying out for a return to normalcy

13th hour new domain suggestion

Don't we have .net back already? Are we still migrating anyway?

.chat url won

WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO AT WORK NOW

WHO THE FUCK VOTED FOR HEXBEAR.CHAT IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE WHAT ARE WE CHATTING ABOUT .COM SHOULD'VE WON

justice for hexbear.gay

Boooo I don’t like the result this is a stolen election

Dang it rip hexbear.red congrats on the successful vote though <3

free from tallying :sisyphus: (at least until the next thing that we have to poll)

in the immortal words of hawk tuah girl doing crisis PR for her cryptoscam crash, i'm goin to bed, y'all. good night!

I would prefer to find a domain that satisfied various technical requirements such as being resistant to possible future blunders and malicious attacks. Then just make the site name work with an appropriate TLD

But there is no info available and maybe if there is it's hidden in the most impossible to read thread this site has ever produced. So there is not really any point in bringing it up now. Here you go.

• chapo.chat
• hexbear.red
• hexbear.chat
• hexbear.space
• hexbear.com
• hexbear.zone

I want to say this is the most effective anti-communist propaganda I ever encountered. I don't want this political system even as a joke. Using a million ugly white men as pictographs for voting options is such an onerous and unkind method of rigging this up. I feel like it's some sort of passive aggressive thing about making a further problem to distract from the original problem. It's kind of how social media rolls, goofs and gaffs just keep going. "Let that sink in". Now look what happened. Just keep going.

It makes total sense that an online, volunteer and adhoc committee for a project like this would make blunders that benefit a lot from 20/20 hindsight. Whatever. la lutte continue. But why does the solution involve everyone being punished? discussion is impossible here and discussion is a big part of democracy.

I remember once some really effective young union organizers were telling me about doing solidarity support for striking nurses in a pretty conservative area. They showed up and kind of put the nurses off kilter because they were all punk and counter culture looking. But then as they got to working together to plan actions and stuff, the nurses said to them, "You guys look like you're just here to cause trouble but when you're around the meetings run like the smoothest PTA ever."

I hope the anecdote makes sense: the fun inside joke subculture stuff does not need to obstruct actually making a little practice of democracy. Everyone living in the west needs that practice wherever they can get it because many of us have literally neever participated in a meaningful democratic collective decision in our whole lives. A situation like this is an opportunity for political education, to show that decisions are made better via democracy and that collective decision making isn't an arduous waste of time. But instead it is just a hostile construction.

It's all lore I guess.

Just going to add a note that whoever is actually picking the new name should read this:

https://www.eff.org/wp/which-internet-registries-offer-best-protection-domain-owners

We're trying to keep several users safe, and picking a TLD from a registry that could turn our domain over to authorities is not something we should do. Instead of picking a funny TLD, we should pick a secure one. NONE of the TLDs we've been offered match that description.

And as far as registrars go, definitely don't go back with Sav, and definitely don't go with GoDaddy or NameCheap. Even if you have to pay more, it matters who you do business with.

Com was fptp Winner I bet. Ranked choice sucks. Think about all the people with awful taste who voted for the least popular choice. people with taste that bad have the highest probability that their 2nd choice is also going to be awful. Why should these people's votes count against mine, who only ranked a single, elegant, Paul-Allens-Business-card vote for hexbear.com?

I wanted pigpoop.balls

wait i missed it when is chapo.chat set to expire? I've been using that one the whole time and I didn't even notice the outage

I really think hexbear.net.cn would suffer the same phishing issues as h.exbear.net

It's going to be a nightmare to have to remind people to type in .cn at the end of .net otherwise they might phished

"Hey I was just posting on hexbear.net.cn it's a really cool site you should visit but make sure to never visit hexbear.net by accident ever"

When you announce the results please just post whatever emote has gotten how many votes, so everyone has to come back here to look up what it actually means

Also a friendly suggestion: you may want to consider a run-off of the top 3. I know ranked choice is meant to prevent the need for this and quibbling over this is electoralist brain, but I think it has a greater chance of making the social side smooth. No biggie in terms of me, personally. I am not really againsy any domain other than friendily cautioning against those that are too similar to the current domain.

idk if im allowed to post twice but im not voting on this second comment, i just want to say it's a damn shame hexbear.gay isnt on the ballot tbqh, if anything can be done to contact the owner and change that, like a second poll between the winner of this and hexbear.gay that'd be like super duper ideal

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:dean-sussy:

tbh wish you guys would take suggestions on rebranding "hexbear" seeing it's from a meme that was popular for like a month and doesn't exactly have the ring of a social media forum to it. it's like if reddit were rebranded to "dogewow.com" because that was the-thing in 2015. i haven't even seen the og

not saying the logo should be rebranded too i kinda fw it, although the expanded version (

Esoteir's objections to h.exbear.net and exbear.net are good points and I second his recommendation to disqualify them. ~~hexbear.net.cn would be funny because it'll get the nato libs up in arms about us cozying up to China~~ I'm sad to say but people's objections to hexbear.net.cn as a possible phishing risk for being too similar to the old domain are correct.

Hexbear.com seems awful -- we're not a company.

1. :dean-frown: hexbear.com
2. :dean-smile: hexbear.chat
3. :stay-out-of-my-territory: hexbear.zone
4. :dean-neutral: hexbear.space
5. :nl-smug: hexbear.live
6. :okay-okay: hexbear.online

Abstain: hexbear.net.cn would be hilarious, but I agree with others who are concerned it would be a huge security risk. If hexbear.net domain auction goes through, who knows what'll be posted on the old domain. We don't want people getting scammed or doxxed.

hexbear.zone :stay-out-of-my-territory:

hexbear.chat :dean-smile:

hexbear.space :dean-neutral:

Zone just feels really nice for some reason. I honestly like red too (possibly because it's shortest) but don't think putting a colour in the name is a good idea for left-unity. Dot com is not even worth pursuing as the US controls it.

I have already voted, but a question. we're blocked in China, and none of us actually know why. there's been speculation it's the conflation with the shitocoin, but we don't actually know; others have mentioned other lemmy instances are also blocked in China. whatever the reason we're blocked in China is, do you not think being on a .cn domain might cause us trouble? there are also laws around social media in China, do the admins know what those are and how to comply with them?

:dean-frown: .com

:dean-malice: .cn

:dean-sussy: .red

(concern: typos/failing to type the cn will lead to a lot of confusion and people going to the dot net domain, almost wonder if admins shouldn't in advertising and social links direct people to a site like .red or .com and just set up a redirect there to the .cn site if that wins just to prevent confusion among outsiders or new people. Obviously the winner should still be used as the actual domain for federation purposes. I think it would have been best if admins tried to secure any other .cn gtld such as .com.cn given that would prevent confusion with whoever grabs the .net domain. If net.cn wins I would strongly encourage admins to attempt to secure .com.cn or .org.cn instead.)

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:dean-neutral:
:dean-sussy:
:stay-out-of-my-territory:
:dean-malice:

o7 to the vote counters, hope the bit was worth it.