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
wtf is this trend of people referring to liking things as "autism"
no you don't have "dinosaur autism" you just think dinosaurs are cool, because they are
I haven't heard that, but I think it's just a new branch on the tree of turning medical terms into descriptions of personality traits. Like how people who clean say they have OCD.
I think the worst case I heard of misusing the term "autism" was Malcolm Gladwell arguing that cops should be shielded from culpability in racist discrimination cases because they experience momentary autism during the event and that's why they do racism.
Malcolm Gladwell likes to sprinkle a little bit of improvised "race science" into his books around the end, and he does not get enough shit for it. He has also proposed theories on why Asian people are bad pilots and how rice heavy diets create a math lobe in your brain.
never trust a lib author
Momentary autism?
I don't actually want to know more because just that description is causing me enough
Wait till you hear that being easily distracted or not likening 8 hours repetitive work is ADHD
im gonna be the nerd who says that despite the conception online most ADHD awareness stuff is decent. being diagnosed meand I've consumed a LOT of it once the algorithms got me in a vice grip.
EDIT: and to help quell anyone's concerns about whether neurodivergent traits are *actually" overdiagnosed online, I think it's good we remember this graph:
thats what someone with dinosaur autism would say