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
i will say that i always do enjoy it when bmf or that one leftcom make another new account and shit up the place with a whole bunch of hilarious weird sectarianism before getting banned again, it always keeps things interesting
Who is bmf? And that one leftcomm? If you don’t mind me asking. I’ve been on hiatus from the site for a while and don’t recognize/remember these names. I’m assuming just people who’ve stirred shit and up and been banned?
bmf is @black_mold_futures who has posted under a bunch of usernames with a bunch of weird incomprehensible shit about eating bugs and pmc karens and :peter-coffin: and is maybe also an unironic gonzaloite, nobody is quite sure how much is a bit and how much is real but theyre easily the most entertaining poster on the site
and theres one leftcom who comes in occasionally and posts enormous walls of text about the real movement to abolish the present state of things and ruthless critique of all that exists etc etc and then just calls everyone else fake marxists until they get banned
Interesting. On first glace at bmf’s account I thought they look like a bot that just generates posts from analyzing text found on the site.
and theres one leftcom who comes in occasionally and posts enormous walls of text about the real movement to abolish the present state of things and ruthless critique of all that exists etc etc and then just calls everyone else fake marxists until they get banned
classic
