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On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

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
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

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[-] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 95 points 1 month ago

So happy to be here for 4 years with all of you, to another year of posting!

!bestofhexbear@hexbear.net is a great community if you wish to nominate any post or comment chain for it

If you want to apply to become a moderator of an existing community or create one please send me a mod application here or in matrix

Application

What is your Hexbear username?

Do you have any preferred pronouns?

What are your thoughts on capitalism?

What are your thoughts on imperialism?

What are your thoughts on trans rights?

What are your thoughts on racial justice?

What do think about current and previous protests around the world?

What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?

Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities?

What did those experiences teach you?

What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?

How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?

What current comms would you be interested in moderating?

Do you have any ideas for community engagement?

What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)

Element informationElement is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.

To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser.

The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:

Press "Create Account"

We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat.

This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username.

(Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open on chapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account on matrix.org)

Fill in a username and password

Hit register, and you're done!

[-] Finger@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

no more half measures walter

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Bestofhexbear is currently locked for inactivity but I could certainty reopen it

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

also we're always looking for mods on traa, hmu and i'll add you. only criteria is youre a socialist and trans/agender/gender diverse/etc

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

All of my posts please check the cake next to my name

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[-] Finger@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago
[-] nemmybun@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago
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[-] Washburn@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago

My coworker told me the other day about how someone who used to work here got fired for bringing in their PS4 and playing video games on the clock using their work computer monitor and the entire time I was like

waow-based

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

how long did it take to get caught? I feel like it would hard to hide something as huge as both the game machine itself and the controller for it lmao.

[-] Washburn@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

No idea. Onsite, we all had separate offices, and he said that the guy would just like have his door closed all the time lol.

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

what a fucking king

Death to America

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[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

On my way down to DC to protest Netenyahu's speech and send a message to all the genocidal monsters in congress

This is a good way to celebrate Hexbear's anniversary, my favorite post/event has to be mkuktrawide coining the phrase Genocide Joe and today I represent the corner of the internet where it happened

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[-] Washburn@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

4 years ago, I was waiting on the Discord for the site to launch. Then the site launched and I was like "hell yeah"

Still the best site on the web

But I'm a girl now

hell yeah πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

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[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Used the prolewiki page on the "Holodomor" to convince someone with no prior knowledge that the prevailing narrative on the subject originates in Nazi propaganda and they immediately accepted it hell yeah.

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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

4 years ago I was a delusional fool who believed both in liberal reformism and that I was a cis man. Now we're here

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

Seeing IT guys and programmers joke about how expensive AWS is now, and I guess it's funny how everyone saw this coming but noone had a plan for it.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

I've been yelling at cloud the whole time. Centralizing all your infrastructure on someone else's hardware somewhere that you have no control over is a terrible logistical and strategic move even before you get captured by their walled garden and realize you've lost all the institutional knowledge needed to break free.

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[-] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have never seen astroturfing as effective as what's happening for Kamala right now. It's actually terrifying, leftist TikTok creators are getting destroyed in the comments of their videos for speaking out, and the libs are naturally eating it up. This to me is eerily reminiscent of the Obama campaign in 2008, back when I was still a lib myself. Kamala is not nearly as charismatic, but I am sure we still see some very forced parallel imagery.

It's very early and time certainly has accelerated in the past few years, but unless something crazy happens between now and November, my instinct is that Trump is going to get steamrolled. They are running her as the younger cool mom candidate vs the nasty old white man, non-jaded zoomers will eat it up and they will set themselves up for their own Obama disillusionment in a few years. Nothing will fundamentally change.

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[-] context@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

here's to four more years of "is hexbear dying?" posts

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago
[-] Moss@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

happy birthday to the transgender communists on my phone.

four years ago i was on holidays (like 50km from home because it was pandemic times) eagerly refreshing my phone to see when chapo.chat would launch.

now i eagerly refresh my phone to see replies in my inbox and also i have pronouns

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

When we were all dirt_owl for a day

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[-] maccruiskeen@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

gonna shamelessly use this post to celebrate almost 3 years of hextube cinema ! cat-vibing

[content warning: many flashing images]

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago
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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

4 MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS!

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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

just got a 25% raise at work unexpectedly! Apparently it's what I should have been earning this whole time, as our union forced the employer to do an equal pay analysis and I was being paid 25% less than I should have for my experience and education. First time in my life I can remember feeling the financial burden ease instead of tighten

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[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Thank you to Hexbear and all of the comrades here for keeping me sane for the past 4 years. Without Hexbear I would still be posting in the trenches of r*ddit, arguing with the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. This website is unironically helping me stay sane.

Special shout out to @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net for cooking up the megathreads. hexbear-gay-pride

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[-] iArtemis@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

I started doing an exercise routine again. I forgot how much it sucks at the beginning, everything is so sore.

My next reps are gonna be two sets of straight snoozin' sleepi Might take me all day but I'm ready to make that commitment.

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Four years of this place, makes me sad I missed it. Wife brought me here last september or so? and I made my account in November. Pretty cool webzone, hats off to the feds for orchestrating the creation of such a neat site.

[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

if it makes you feel better u missed out on some extremely cringe growing pains

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

It kinda does tbh yea the cissie purges, vegan struggle sessions, I am getting pretty much the best hexbear as it is. Thank everyone for doing all those struggle sessions for me.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

New Megathread nerds! hexbear-retro 4 MORE YEARS 4 MORE YEARS

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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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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

it is july 24 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

How the fuck has it already been 4 years?

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[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HEXBEAR!

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency." - Mao Zedong

[-] roux@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

I'm actually glad reddit went to complete shit over the app bullshit. Otherwise I'd never have learned about Lemmygrad and subsequently Hexbear. These communities are the first time I really felt like I have a place online where I fit and that isn't a pickme contest like on FB or Twitter.

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the Netanyahu standing ovations are so fucking depraved and the only non-Hitlerian elected official in the country is Rashida Tlaib, death to this excuse for a nation and a thousand apolitical gooner Pensyltuckians upon the halls of congress joker-amerikkklap

[-] blipblip@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Not me developing feelings the instant a cute girl shows me a simple kindness haHa FUCK

Good night everybody

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[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Fucking hate this country. My aircraft was changed to a 737Max

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[-] milk_thief@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

I appreciate the mods and admins keeping this place useable and even enjoyable. It's a thankless and annoying job and you seem to not become self-important power mods/users over it, so thank you.

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[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

AI generated Picture of elderly bear in bed: β€œhow many likes can this patriot get?”

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

wage labor is extremely fucking good at making you feel like you're wasting your one precious life, shit is so fucking cool it owns so much felix-linus

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

FOUR MORE YEARS

My wife just dropped a super complicated Lego sculpture my kid built and since I'm sick with nothing to do I was like ok I'll fix it

She just dropped it again and I heard all the pieces scatter lol

[-] Poogona@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

found a pic of my bearded dragon (RIP) heightmogging me from like a decade ago and I think the people should witness

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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

What a quintessentially Twitter post chefs-kiss

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

i've said variations of this before but in honor of the site's bday: this site is truly a window into what a kinder and more humane internet might look like. genuinely kinda baffling it exists, in a good way. (should still be named chapo . chat though you fucking bastards, the original subreddit was a wild and wonderful place and the pod is fine-to-good, why erase our history angery )

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[-] rafflesia@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

woke up in an absolutely foul mood today power-in-misery

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