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:
- π Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- π₯ Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- β Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- β¨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
reminders:
- π You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- π Hexbearβs algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- π Sorting by new you nerd
- π If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- πΆ Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
- β€οΈFoundations of Leninism
- β€οΈAnarchism and Other Essays
Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry
I have never seen astroturfing as effective as what's happening for Kamala right now. It's actually terrifying, leftist TikTok creators are getting destroyed in the comments of their videos for speaking out, and the libs are naturally eating it up. This to me is eerily reminiscent of the Obama campaign in 2008, back when I was still a lib myself. Kamala is not nearly as charismatic, but I am sure we still see some very forced parallel imagery.
It's very early and time certainly has accelerated in the past few years, but unless something crazy happens between now and November, my instinct is that Trump is going to get steamrolled. They are running her as the younger cool mom candidate vs the nasty old white man, non-jaded zoomers will eat it up and they will set themselves up for their own Obama disillusionment in a few years. Nothing will fundamentally change.
yes you have
Like do you not remember how fucking hard reddit went for Hillary in 2016 despite how much people fucking hate her and how she should have gone to jail and now all people will fucking say about it is "buttery males"? But then that one day she fainted or whatever and got hucked into the back of a van, Reddit was suddenly totally devoid of pro Hillary voices, almost as if a switch had been flipped
I got about 5 khive clowns on tiktok this morning. It's usually funny when people have bad political takes but these are like toxic rage bait political takes.
This guy was like I'm not listening to leftist white people talk about Kamala Harris because Marx was a white Russian man who hated black people.
I've seen that same argument so many times already, it's wild. Also a lot of Palestinian flag emojis asking what the other option is if they don't vote for Kamala, because Trump will surely take away their bodily autonomy (a thing that definitely did not already start to happen under Biden's watch).