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https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear

No, not everything is publicly available. This would steal passwords and “private” messages and more. It would link IP addresses to user accounts, for instance, which provides geolocations of varying precision.

I haven’t thought through the TLS certificate aspect of this though. Perhaps there’s some mitigation to be had there? The current cert expires soon, on 2025-03-24, and covers several domains, including chapo.chat. In any case, I don’t think there’s anything to stop the new domain owner from spinning up new valid certificates for themselves 😓

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So this is a man-in-the-middle attack waiting to happen isn’t it? Buy the domain, setup a reverse proxy that points to the original hexbear server IP and start logging all requests.

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

They didn't really move. That hostname has been a synonym for hexbear.net all along. It may have been the instance's original hostname.

Did you even read lemmy.ml’s rules?

1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

Just done it myself with deepseek.

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AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

Tell me you didn’t just post a screenshot of AI slop.

Ok. If I were forced to choose between hexbear.net and reddit.world, I wouldn’t choose .world. But you do you.

Because .world's admins pre-emptively defederated from Hexbear as a “last resort” (even though, by definition, it was their “first resort”).

About a year ago: Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement

Yesterday, we received information about the planned federation by Hexbear. The announcement thread can be found here: https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770.

Defederation should only be considered as a last resort. However, based on their comments and behavior, no positive outcomes can be expected.

We’re not buying games, we’re categorizing games. Again, the game we’re playing is called “Game Categorization, the Game,” and it costs nothing to play it.

Smart move, you're playing Game Categorization, the Game for free on Steam’s dime.