Might be nostalgia glasses + the new sorting algorithm. I’ve been here a while and things haven’t changed that much.

What I have noticed:

• Discussions have mostly moved from posts to megathreads, honestly this is kinda weird to me but w/e. Its still happening tho, just maybe not in the expected format
• less trolling, due to the efforts of the admins/mods
• less reactionary shit in general, chuds & terfs & stupidpol types get utterly decimated when trying to post here, there were definitely people that used to slip past the radar and would poison the well of discussion here
• People here are a little less liberal (me included) after having to kill the Bernie in their hearts and minds + forced integration with lemmygrad

wasn’t just recycled memes and images from r/thedeprogram or r/trueanon

One of my favorite parts of Hexbear is being able to see memes from reddit without having to go to Reddit myself

I appreciate all of the posters who go into that jungle to bring back the slop

In my experience, spending half a day writing and editing a post on and off is typically rewarded with less than a dozen comments. I used to write for its own sake, but there was no incentive to continue for me when life got busy.

This place is barely alive thanks to the low effort memes, otherwise it would already be dead

I thought UlyssesT was coming back

Sorry that my posts suck. If I see you make some effort posts I promise to engage in them seriously.