On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image 
, a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.
I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.
I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds
Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?
- π»Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- π Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- π₯ Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
- β Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
- β¨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
- π New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
- 𧑠Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
- β Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086
reminders:
- π You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- π Hexbearβs algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- π Sorting by new you nerd
- πΆ Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
- β€οΈFoundations of Leninism
- β€οΈAnarchism and Other Essays
Decided to purchase a fountain pen to finally justify why I bought a book of calligraphy some years ago. Realized I'm gonna need some ink for it, and fountain pens need special water-based ink that's for fountain pens only. But a Hobby Lobby moved into town ten years ago and killed our last standing mom & pop craft store.
Well, it turns out our fucking Hobby Lobby doesn't carry fountain pen ink. None of the other big box stores carry it either. The local office supplies company doesn't have it. All I want is some ink, man. I'm going to have to wander through the forest collecting oak galls. This is the worst thing Hobby Lobby has ever done.
(Assuming American) I swear I remember seeing some at joann's (but they closed). Michael's might have some. Office depot/staples might have some. All would have like crappy/very generic black and blue ink though. If you want anything fancy you gotta go online or hope to be near a specialty shop.
I've ordered online from goulet, but I swear they had a small business tyrant moment somewhat recently. (Regarding carrying noodler's ink, iirc.)
Jet pens is the other one I've heard pretty consistently good things about. I think they focus on East-Asian ink/supplies though.
Sucks that its a niche hobby. I enjoyed my time with it and need to get back to it. Helped me improve my handwriting to almost readable.
I like jetpens and Yoseka for ink
They did, they suck.
Please make a follow up post of your adventures.