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):

Aid:

Theory:

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

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]M
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      4 months ago

      I have to say I donut know who made this but it was not me

      My friend sent it to me and they got it from Instagram but lost the acct its from

      Reverse image search shows nothing :(

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        Oh that's a shame, y'know one of the worst things about the Internet of Five Websites and its trash walled gardens is that sourcing image origin has become really hard. I hate it, we must retvrn to web1.0 or usenet or something.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]M
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          4 months ago

          Yeahhh, it's awful :(

          I hate it, we must retvrn to web1.0 or usenet or something.

          For real, this shit sucks, time to return to the era of Geocities

          Also, I asked my friend and they managed to find it, here you go:

          https://www.instagram.com/p/C90g6yCT_1d/?img_index=2

          • ashinadash [she/her]
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            4 months ago

            REAL AF

            Oh nice, I can plug this into whatever the instant graham frontend is ✨

            • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]M
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              4 months ago

              Oh nice, I can plug this into whatever the instant graham frontend is ✨

              As far as I know, there is no such thing except for a couple of closed-source webapps that don't work so well yea

              I think I had the best luck with this one: https://www.picuki.com/