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)?

🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086

reminders:

💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
💜 Sorting by new you nerd
🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

❤️Foundations of Leninism
❤️Anarchism and Other Essays

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Happy Birthday, Hexbear! It's a pleasure to be comrades with the likes of such infamously power-posting, well-informed, and unreasonable tankies. hexbear-chapochat party-sicko party-blob party-parenti pirate-jammin sicko-jammin dubois-dance kitsuragi-dance party-parrot

Unfortunately, my celebration is short-lived. I used to be as Hexagonal of a Bear as they come, but today I made a post to the news mega saying

I used to be as Left as they come, but China banned each of my two attempts at making a rednote account stating I am allegedly trying to create too many accounts.

Now I will only eat burger and watch Fox News. Great job alienating your biggest supporters, Xi.

The mods responded in typical authoritarian fashion and quickly removed my post right before it went viral, claiming it's in the "wrong thread". This has gone too far, we all know it's because this place is run by China shills that don't allow criticism of the totalitarian CCP. I can't take the abuse and harassment at Hexbear for speaking the truth anymore, this instance is officially dead. Now I'm going to be moving onto a platform that respects free speech and my unpopular anti-China views, like X or reddit. This place has gone downhill ever since Dirt_Owl left.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Haha, yeah Dirt_Owl was very cool and normal and attractive. I wonder where that loveable renegade went?