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 dprk-soldier, 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)?

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:

  • iie [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    not trying to get too serious in the megathread, but,

    therapy goers, is there a therapist word (that I can google) for not having a coherent identity? as in, “be yourself,” “I can’t, that person straight up doesn’t exist.” it’s not depersonalization, and I don’t think it’s dissociation. it just feels like a huge chunk of me is inexpressible and scrambled even to myself.

    *if no word immediately comes to mind, there’s no need to dig for one, I’m not using hexbear as an unpaid therapist

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      It honestly just sounds like the human condition. We all spend our lives trying to discover our identity, a small handful of us find it and the rest pretend that we have.

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Not knowing how you experience it, what you’re describing just sounds like most people to me. People definitely have naturally occurring personalities, but I think they outwardly exaggerate and perform them. I have absolutely nothing to base this off off, its just a vibe.