On this day 2 years ago, Hexbear was launched. Originally known as chapo.chat , hexbear.net has grown into a veritable juggernaut. Some believe that Amazon discontinued the Alexa website rankings in May 2022 to prevent hexbear.net from claiming the top spot.
Despite weirdly intense attention from wreckers over the years, hexbear.net is going strong on her second birthday, with excellent engagement numbers, and a wholesome, caring community. My sincere thanks to everyone that continues to be part of it, whether as a lurker, sporadic poster, or terminally-online power poster. On this second Hexday, I would also like to give a special shoutout to the many users who have been here since July 25th, 2020 and remain active to this day.
I’d also like to recognize emeritus site developers @ScreamoBMO and @DashEightMate for their countless contributions to the site. They retired from active development and moderation last year after many, many hours of volunteering, and we absolutely would not have this site without them.
We are, of course, also grateful to our current moderation and development teams, but I’ll refrain from tagging anyone by name as contributors may have different levels of comfort with public acknowledgement. I will say that, of all the team members, I contribute the least (I 'm just comfortable with “public speaking”), so there are many other people out there who deserve a ton of credit for keeping this site going.
Furthermore, I am pleased to reveal that, amidst all the liberals, we have–at long last–determined that the One True Leftist is also a user of this site, and it’s you.
Finally, on a serious note, I will say that while this site is many things to many people, it has never been a movement; it’s a place for people who are part of a movement. So, to the extent that you are able, go outside and do your praxis, then come inside to hexbear.net for a comforting cup of virtual tea. Be excellent to each other and viva la hexbear.
Does that make sense? I think it does.
With communist greetings,
Quimby
(posting on behalf of myself; views may or may not reflect those of the rest of the moderation team)
Announcements & Information
Megathreads and spaces to hang out:
❤️ Come listen to music with your fellow Hexbears in Cy.tube
💖 Come talk in the New weekly queer thread
🧡 Monthly Neurodiverse Megathread
💛 Read about a current topic in the news
⭐️ June Movie Thread ⭐️
Reminders:
💚 You can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments and discussions over upbears
💜 Sorting by new makes your comrades happy
🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can go here
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
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Aid:
💙 Comprehensive list of resources for those in need of an abortion -- reddit link
💙 Resources for Palestine
Theory:
❤️ Foundations of Leninism
❤️ Anarchism and Other Essays
❤️ Mega upload with theory for many tendencies
- BMF’s Alts and Sevendeadlyfetishes were banned.
- The Silver Legion
- The PatSoc Purge
- The general decline in quality of trolls
- Jordan Peterson’s descent into misogynistic madness
- An accompanying set of “why are girls so mean? 😠” debates. Still kinda unresolved.
- Huge increase in activity during the Ukraine war
- Struggle Sessions about Free Will
- Someone did stats to show site population is stable with little growth or decline
- Devs are trying to re-fork Lemmy again but keeping it compatible this time
- General alienated malaise causing a steady stream of people to reach out on here for advice (seems to be increasing)
- We have a Chicago comm now
- WhyEssEff had a series of posts about reactionary college profs
- Absolutely no one was surprised about Uvalde
- The Supreme Court stuff has a lot of people rattled and paranoid whether their lives are stable
- I think we had a gamedev contest
Uhhh, that’s all I can remember off the top of my head. There’s probably more.
The Silver Legion
I was around for the silver legion stuff, it was too funny how shit hit the fan like exactly a month after that post lmao.
Huge increase in activity during the Ukraine war
This is actually what prompted me to come back.
Someone did stats to show site population is stable with little growth or decline
Better to have slow growth than growth due to misaligned communities coming in and affecting the culture. Just my opinion anyway. Communities typically go through fluctuations of growth and stagnation anyway. The fact that this place is still around 2 years later is honestly impressive as hell.
WhyEssEff had a series of posts about reactionary college profs
I’ll def have to check this out.
Absolutely no one was surprised about Uvalde
:acab:
The Supreme Court stuff has a lot of people rattled and paranoid whether their lives are stable
I’m kinda embarrassed to say that this one took me a bit by surprise. I’m not american, but still this shook me.
This is actually what prompted me to come back.
Have you been reading the bulletins? There’s a blog now.
Better to have slow growth
The weirdest part is that the graph was totally flat
Yes I did see the bulletins, they look to be really well put together. When I first read the bulletin I was surprised as I had actually been hearing the exact same information as was posted, but then I realized that’s because I’ve been getting the bulk of my news from a source that @SeventyTwoTrillion references in his posts, namely Alex Mercouris on youtube. He’s a lib but at least he has an actual brain when it comes to ukraine, russia, nato, the global economy, etc.
An accompanying set of “why are girls so mean? 😠” debates. Still kinda unresolved.
look, I just have some questions. dudes, why are you like this?
