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I got curious about how bad Hexbear was according to sh.itjust.works and told myself "i should document it and make a post about it if it's really that bad"

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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have been a podcast oldhead for awhile, and I heard from a DSA buddy that the Bernie crowd had this hot new podcast from some of the boys that had done the satirical Beltway podcast, which had a funny bit of the guy firing his intern after he changed his pfp to a Christmas avi and not being able to figure out how to change it back.

From there the Chapo Boys complained about the subreddit being cringe, so I checked it out and realized that these idiots were actually treating reddit like a real old school forum, with dog piling, strategic posting, and applying twitter posting rules to just blast the absolute shit out of some of the most annoying people on the internet. From there I realized that the people who really got the anti-imperialist side were being relegated to r/moretankiechapo, but it rapidly started to leak into the main subreddit. It was a lot of fun pissing on know-it-alls.

After the first quarantine, I started looking for alternatives in the event that the sub got banned, which seemed inevitable as the fuckers would accuse us of 'raiding' when all we would do is mass ping assholes and it was their choice to come to our subreddit and think they could duke it out with literally the most prolific posters on the site.

I found the original discord, chapo2's discord, and here. Discord fucking sucks for this kind of stuff, and having its own infrastructure appealed to the tankie in me, so I inevitably came here and settled in once the ban became permanent.