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):
Aid:
Theory:
this site’s pretty cool all things considered but i think i just fundamentally hate the internet at this point
Yeah same. I can’t remember the last time I actually enjoyed anything on the net and I only log on maybe once per week. At best it just feels like a waste of time.
Anyway thanks for the reminder to log off for the next month or so (or until something really funny happens and I have to check the bear for non libbed up commentary)
yeah for me, i think the assuming of worst faith, jumping down people’s throats for innocuous shit (or at least, non-ill-intended shit), and dunking/owning/winning arguments as a form of currency just feel too baked into the cultural architecture of the medium of the internet to fully escape it. hexbear is generally a lot better than the rest of what’s out there, but it’s not immune by any means.
and as far as the explicitly political end of the internet, the mistaking of doing discourse/having the correct opinions online for actually Doing Politics/being a political actor is also kind of inherent. again, people are a lot more cognizant of that trap on this site than others, but it’s still baked in to a degree.
i’d probably follow your example of shooting for once a week of internet time, but i have a high downtime job in front of a computer most of the day. so here i am