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 
, 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:
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
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
- 🌈 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
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 information
Element 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!
Periodically shooting a gun into the air in the courtyard of my Fediverse instance to keep the gentrifiers away.
What lines are most upsetting to internet gentrifiers in 2024? I need some new material
“Hamas did nothing wrong.”
loser ass incel cricket chirping outside my window all night
found a pic of my bearded dragon (RIP) heightmogging me from like a decade ago and I think the people should witness
FWIIIIHuh! Hooh! Huh! Hooh! Huh! Hooh!I think I accidentally made Fallout 4’s story better (admittedly not hard) with my alternative start. I did an escaped Synth. I made them the default looking female character and called them Nora. That said I have changed my hair, tattoos, scars etc during the game.
When I eventually got around the main quest, I find the body of Nora with the same recorded voice and features as my character dead in Vault 111. Kellog mistakes me for the dead Nora. I see her alive in his memories. Codsworth thinks I’m the old Nora. There’s obviously cracks in the mod and dialogue where things become janky.
But the whole thing has become murky and ambiguous. Is my character a Synth? Does my character know that? Does the Institute Know this? Does Shaun know I’m the original or a Synth copy?
Given I’m Railroad and I’m infiltrating the Institue our dialogue suddenly becomes a game of intrigue. I’m trying to butter him up so I can work to sabotage them. Is he observing me as an experiment in turn or is it a weird dying man’s attempt to resurrect his mother?
> “darkly-pureblack”
> look inside
> gray
At a family function right now, this side of the family has NO idea of my politics because they’re hyper reactionary and a little dangerous, so I just pretend to be completely aloof from politics.
Two particularly religious nutty family members were right next to me talking about the end times and if they think Jesus will be coming soon, and if Kamala and the dems are the antichrist. One let out “do you think we’ll have full communism before then”. And I just had to step away and laugh in the bathroom. Americans are so incredibly brainstormed.
I believe in myself and I trust myself. I feel secure in my ability to get through tough times, listen, and make changes when I need to. I am smart and adaptable. I care for others and for myself. The things I like and the things I do are worthwhile.
Just found my bike lock key after losing it for over a year! It’s a really nice one too.
Do you remember the code?
lol love the idea that you know a 4 year old is gay because they’re into musical theater, they’re calling things fabulous. The gay test: is your toddler behaving like a 90s sitcom character.
Upon birth child is given two colored towels, if they puke into the pink one - they gay, the blue one - heterosexual. That’s the rules
Dalai Lama selection process but gay:
Happy hex cake day to all the idiots like me that joined the site one day late
I just learned from my dad in law that Kamala is actually a radical leftist
Big if true
Can’t even make “left of hitler” jokes anymore smdh
so hawk tuah girl is just someone who suggested spittin on a d durin oral? that’s literally all? idk man thats pretty vanilla but mb there’s somethin im missing here
Yeah but she said it in a funny way. “Hawk tuah you gotta spit on that thang”
tru she did say it a lil silly
I haven’t watched the video just because of how fast it went viral and the people I saw sharing it. Like, wow, a cishet woman talking about spitting during oral, how revolutionary, how brave. The wokies are all in shambles
so wait cishet women having a sexuality somehow owns woke??? the chud mind makes less and less sense everyday lol
IDK, that’s what it felt like until she said she doesn’t like Trump during an interview and all her “fans” turned against her
so weird lol you’d think they’d be freaked out by a woman being that open about her sexuality cishet or not. oh well best not to dwell too long on their fuckin weird ass fragile neuroses.
they specifically like that it’s sucking dick she’s taking about.
I’m getting so much silver hair wtf
