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Trick question. Hexbears grow in the summer to store fat to make it through winter hibernation.
I post my butt and call the website OnlyButts
Form a biker gang called Heck's Bears
And they're all twinks
We should try to get more AMA's with notable people (we've had second thought, who else is good?) and trying to get powerful posters here from places like Twitter (slammer? aldanmarki?)
We also had Max Ajl which was honestly a pretty serious get
Imo the best way to grow Hexbear is by feeding her more beans 
maybe it shouldn't have visibility? like maybe the reason hexbear exists as it does, with its tacit and built-in leftism is entirely a product of obscurity?
like everytime something gets big, it becomes a threat, if not to profit-seeking competitors simply threatened by the diverted attention, then the ideology being out of step and what is otherwise outside of permissible mainstream discourse.
attention is bad imo
let the people meant to find this place find it, leave everyone else to their bullshit.
Hijack trans Reddit with links to Hexbear
IIRC there have been several "fishing" trips to this end, think some of the old posts are still around on c/traa. I also know a lot of new users got pulled in from other lemmy trans comms/instances 
Who are you looking to have join? What would they be interested in?
Since it seems that many users came here in the wake of their past communities being closed, destroyed, banned, ruined etc, maybe it would make sense to keep an eye open for endangered leftist spaces and give them an invite. These are moments when people are actively searching for new spaces and have space to fill in their lives.
Here is a general purpose list of websites that may soon close: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Deathwatch
But leftists are always getting kicked out of wherever they are at.
One element of hexbear that the existing users really enjoy and value is the cliquishness. Its a lot of in jokes and references. Constant callbacks to specific threads that happened years ago and either aren't online or aren't findable. Having been here for a year and a half I can mostly follow the main themes but lots of it wooshes past me. People like to pull rank and show how long they've been here. Once you are in a group like this it is extremely comfortable and nice and you feel connected to other people.
I am not saying this as any sort of criticism. It is what it is and overall I like it. but it is inherently difficult to recruit people into such a scene. New users are at a disadvantage. Plus there is the dynamic state of behavioral expectations and current meta discourse.
If the site wanted to make an effort to grow, it would need an idea about how facilitate integration of new users.
I can't imagine a successful recruitment campaign not leading to hella drama. It would inherently change the character of the site.
Getting rid of the entry barrier would help.
Hgh: hexbear growth hormone /jk For real though what got me was outreach when r/traa was closing down and some brave soul (I assume somebody here) mentioned hexbear as a leftist alternative to blåhaj zone that's very trans friendly. I missed having r/cth around, so lurking here and eventually making an account was pretty natural. /Srs
Apply chemical fertilizer, till and disc the winter before.
Start the seeds indoors two or three weeks before the last frost date, move them to bigger containers as required.
Plant in the prepared plot and spread mulch.
Use mesh/stakes as needed to support growth.
Keep the plot weed and pest free.