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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 dprk-soldier, 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)?

reminders:

  • πŸ’š You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • πŸ’™ Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • πŸ’œ Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Shoutout to the people who have kept this place running for the last 5 years. Shoutout to the people that organise the megas, the reading groups, and the people that keep movie nights going too.

doggirl-thumbsup

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hasbarassholes having a normal one about my fish on the fish drawing site.

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[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

i-think-that posting AI generated images on hexbear should be a bannable offense , even if they're very funny

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Everyone on this website is an AI chatbot except for you

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Man, five years.

I wonder how the other r/cth downstream online communities have gone. Not enough to check, but...

Hands up who has been here for the whole time (give or take)?

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Learning that I dont "hate" kids, its just that every single parent in my adoptive family is awful and the kids are the biggest victim of that was such an eye opening experience that I'm glad I had in my teens so I didnt grow up to be a child hating adult

[–] Des@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (8 children)

it's so weird to basically be growing old on this site

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

doing this one again because I posted it right before the new mega dropped

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

guys guys the reason people can't afford to have kids is the economy is too good actually

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jesus, how much energy and money is wasted by offices making themselves as uncomfortably cold as possible in 100 degree heat. Who even asks for 60 degree offices? I hate this shit.

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

happy birthday to the website that made me gay

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

New Megathread nerds!

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Libs seem to be losing it over Colbert's show being canceled. He hasn't been relevant in close to 20 years. I don't think him having a TV show was gonna stop Trump from doing stuff

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[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! CONGRATULATIONS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WITH SALUTATIONS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! MAY YOUR SKY STAY BLUE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Seeing a post title I'm interested in: dean-smile

It's a link to a video: dean-frown

I'm not watching a whole ass video pausing my music at work and shit. Transcription is the one actual use for LLM i agree with

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