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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):

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I've gone this long pretending to know what a hot couch guy is but I guess I have to learn since I've seen it 3 times just today

[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a guy who sits on a hot couch, not a hot guy who sits on a couch theory-gary

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's black, fake leather, and either has been on direct sun or is just in the hot room of a young guy's house who can't afford air conditioning

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a bit from the chapo podcast, you should be able to find the clip on YouTube

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Chapo? Like the drug dealer?

[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

its honestly one of my favorite chapo bits