New update for those of you following this story

We have established contact with the previously-AWOL owner, and after much discussion, we have determined that while there was an error in the auto-payment initially, the renewal funds were transferred manually to Sav and the auction continues despite that. We are currently appealing to Sav support with our domain credentials. We are also looking into whether an ICANN-compliant grace period was implemented prior to the rescinding and auctioning of the domain.

yep this is a downside to being on a federated server run by some rando.

Weird, www.hexbear.net redirects to chapo.chat while hexbear.net doesn't.

Stop giving them attention. That's the only thing they care about. If a tankie wants to have a 'debate' with you just say 'ok' and move on.

They have no power or any effect on anything. By making them seem bigger than they really are (some niche leftist nutjobs) you only attract new cultists looking to sate their moral superiority kink.

don't think I'd give you a dollar for that even if it was signed by Kenny loggins.

I'm not up to date with my Hexbear knowledge, is hexbear dead?

Well I'm impressed that just defederating from them was enough to basically kill the site.

Every second bid is J_S. Wonder how high they'll go

Their instance seems to be back up again. A sad day for us all.