• @[email protected]OP
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    1113 hours ago

    It would probably be easier for them to keep chapo.chat. Should they massively move to lemmy.ml and recreate their communities there, I guess a lot of instances would start to defederate lemmy.ml

    • @jqubed
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      1612 hours 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the admin’s post it looks like they have the exact same issue with chapo.chat being registered by an admin who is no longer active and not responding to the rest of the admin team.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.

      • socsa
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        -119 hours ago

        “No longer active” presumably means “died in Ukraine?”

        • @[email protected]
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          04 hours ago

          I’m taking it as “grew up and realised he had been an idiot, so stopped talking to them or supporting the cause”

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]OP
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        912 hours ago

        Seems to be kind of a backup domain/instance the hexbear admins have? Not sure to be honest, hopefully someone else can chime in

        • @[email protected]
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          1711 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          712 hours 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.

        • OpenStars
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          312 hours ago

          But they also said that the same issue will occur with it too, in time.