• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
    5012·
    12 days ago

    Wow, that’s a fuck up of monumental proportions. Still 9 days left on the auction, I wonder how much it’ll ultimately sell for.

    This could be really annoying when they all make accounts on lemmy.ml. Funnily enough, having them sequestered over there and defederated from the rest of us has been working pretty well lately. Moderators and admins better start dusting off the banhammers.

      • jqubed@lemmy.world
        27·
        12 days ago

        Reading through the admin’s post it looks like they have the exact same issue with chapo.chat being registered by an admin who is no longer active and not responding to the rest of the admin team. They explicitly say to view the move to chapo.chat as temporary unless they can get control of that domain.

        Sounds like a good lesson for them and many other fediverse instances to form some sort of non-profit/club/organization legal entity and better ensure that these critical items are open to multiple individuals to reduce the bus factor. I would assume having a legal entity would make it easier to get donations to cover costs too.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        72·
        12 days ago

        What is chapo.chat? I can see that it runs Lemmy 0.19.8 but is it just not federated or something?

          • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
            25·
            12 days ago

            It’s the same instance. That’s just a synonymous hostname that points to the same IP address.

          • bishbosh@lemm.eeEnglish
            14·
            12 days ago

            Right after the r/chapotraphouse sub got banned, they moved to chapo.chat, but the community wasn’t really that tied with the chapo trap house podcast anymore, so they moved to hexbear.net.