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 garcia-cock-shotty, 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:

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):

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Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 months ago

    Can someone explain the coconut tree thing to me? I missed the context while on my extended grass-touching sabbatical

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 months ago

      It's from this. The Republicans dropped this clip to make fun of her weird mannerisms and it went viral. It was originally memeified to make fun of her, but as often happens with these things, the meme's meaning changed to be positive on her when libs who wanted Biden gone took it up for themselves.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        It is probably one of the smarter things I've heard her say, just phrased incredibly stupid

        • HarryLime [any]
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          4 months ago

          Probably partly why it was so easy to turn around. Like, it's phrased in a silly way, and her delivery is goofy, but she's not wrong.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            4 months ago

            Also, coconut trees and falling out of em is like an early boomer/late greatest Gen sort of weird phrase. Those guys were falling out of everything, turnip trucks, the trolley and I think tropical fruits were novel cause falling out of a coconut or banana tree is totally something I've heard the near retirement co-workers I had when I just started working say. So it's also got like this why is she talking like someone 15 years younger than my grandpa? Thing too

            • HarryLime [any]
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              4 months ago

              Plus her parents are from Jamaica, so it reflects her heritage.

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                4 months ago

                Didn't know that. Been trying to keep a healthy degree of ignorance in American politics since the Great Ratfucking of 2020. I don't even live there, it's worth keeping an eye on, cause we just kinda match American policies but a bit more lib and with Healthcare.