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)?
- 🐻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):
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Theory:
The bottle of vanilla at my work claims in its label to have 300 FLAVOR NOTES. First off, too fucking many. Too many notes. That is fretless flavor. I cant even think of 300 flavors as a longtime cook, and for vanilla extract that’s 299 too many. If your vanilla tastes like 300 things, you fucked it up. That’s not something to brag about. That absurdity notwithstanding, I just hate the pretentiousness of saying ‘flavor notes’ or worse ‘flavor profile’. Its cop talk for fucking ‘flavor’. Just say flavor, the extra words are useless
In all honesty I think all vaush, h3h3, and contrapoints discourse should be banned from this site. Pls🤞. I don’t want this place to be like r/thedeprogram
That V*ush thread where a depressed person had to deal with thst creep did remind me of a dude i used to work wirh who was on his way out when I was on mt way in to my current gig amd we had a solid comedy back and forth. Around a month after I started my best friend OD’d and I took a couple days off and when I told this guy about it he to me lol.t blank he was gonna try to be even more annoying to me this week so id have something else to thi k about and hed would constantly fake me out about work stuff or just be a silly jerk and it was one of the nicest things anyone has done for me. He k me exactly what he needed to do at that time cl sideline g our relationship as co-workers who got into a good joking around thing. I have no idea where thst guy is now but on thar day he did the exactly correct thing for me
They gave Reed Richards the same moral dillema as Joel Miller (your child or the world) lol Pedro Pascal is only allowed to play one guy.
Shoutout to the people who have kept this place running for the last 5 years. Shoutout to the people that organise the megas, the reading groups, and the people that keep movie nights going too.
Hasbarassholes having a normal one about my fish on the fish drawing site.
posting AI generated images on hexbear should be a bannable offense , even if they’re very funny
Who wants this lol
Man, five years.
I wonder how the other r/cth downstream online communities have gone. Not enough to check, but…
Hands up who has been here for the whole time (give or take)?
Learning that I dont “hate” kids, its just that every single parent in my adoptive family is awful and the kids are the biggest victim of that was such an eye opening experience that I’m glad I had in my teens so I didnt grow up to be a child hating adult
it’s so weird to basically be growing old on this site
guys guys the reason people can’t afford to have kids is the economy is too good actually
Jesus, how much energy and money is wasted by offices making themselves as uncomfortably cold as possible in 100 degree heat. Who even asks for 60 degree offices? I hate this shit.
Libs seem to be losing it over Colbert’s show being canceled. He hasn’t been relevant in close to 20 years. I don’t think him having a TV show was gonna stop Trump from doing stuff
