I was a long time lurker of r/cth and it was the only sane place I could go on Reddit to read shit that wasn’t saturated with racist memes about where I was born (China). Like I don’t even live there and haven’t for decades but fuck me is it wearying to see sOCiAl CrEDIt SCorE jokes on every fucking thread. Anyway I’m done with Reddit and was hanging around general lemmy instances and found y’all through the federation noise. I guess this post was kind of pointless but I’m just happy this community is still around.
Love & peace x
Federating to increase user base.
Getting defederated to increase user base.
Honestly it makes sense. We should have seen it coming.
Welcome to where you always belonged. Here, we lower our snouts in unison and dine as the trough doth runneth over.
I have no clue what is in that picture, the emotes here are deranged, but I’ll agree to the general sentiment
Oh wait is that trump and the cheeseburgers lol
The emotes here are deranged.
Deranged in a good way, right?
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Ya this was 100% forced. But I really wanted to use the anakin-padme chain.
It's my profile banner lmao. Cool feature we just added like a month ago
I literally just randomly remembered this place exists. Tomorrow is my 3 year cake day lol. Would be interesting to see which number user I was
4756
you can check by PMing someone, the url at the top of the create message screen ends with their user number
Oh wow I figured it'd be pretty low but not that low
I started following this site from the beginning, but somewhere along the way I just sorta lost interest. The content wasn't that engaging too me after a while. I remember it as being mostly dunking on American politics and culture war stuff.
The war in Ukraine brought me back because I wanted an online space that wasn't in complete denial about the Western role in the conflict and/or deeply reactionary. This site didn't let me down.
I much prefer engaging with discussions on (geo)political developments with people I disagree with as a matter of degrees, rather than the rabid liberalism on other sites. Eventhough people on this site still say some pretty silly things sometimes, I take it in good faith. As much as I love me some internet drama, it is a breath of fresh air to be able to talk about current events from a socialist perspective without it devolving into a discussion on which 20th century ideology is the real true socialism.
I started following this site from the beginning, but somewhere along the way I just sorta lost interest. The content wasn't that engaging too me after a while. I remember it as being mostly dunking on American politics and culture war stuff.
The war in Ukraine brought me back because I wanted an online space that wasn't in complete denial about the Western role in the conflict and/or deeply reactionary. This site didn't let me down.
I had a very similar story. I joined the subreddit as a lurker in the months before it was banned, joined the lifeboat to the website, and I've checked this place out over the last couple years from time to time (I somehow managed to time it so that I always arrived a week or so after a struggle session) but it felt like we were just kinda in standby mode after 2020, like we were waiting for something to happen to latch onto and in the meantime we were just talking about how shit was getting steadily worse. I kept thinking about how it would be great to inject some more genuine discussion about the state of the world particularly outside America but getting started on that seemed like a rather big goal and I wasn't sure if anybody would even be interested in it.
So when the war hit in 2022 and suddenly things were happening again, and everybody was interested in that again and people were coming back to the site because of the tsunami of propaganda and bullshit flooding everywhere else, it was like, oh shit, maybe there is a niche for these kinds of international discussions.
Thank you for creating and moderating the Bulletins and News Discussion Thread. Its highly appreciated
Welcome!
Fuck racists and fuck the social credit score joke. It was never funny and the FICO score the US has is objectively worse.
welcome back! this place has gone through some rough patches early on but these days I think it's a nicer place than r/cth was, and a lot less reddit vibes than before (thank god)
Welcome. Please submit your Volcel Pledge in triplicate to the admins within 72 hours.
yo the chastity belt I was provided with when signing up didn't include a key, how do I open it?
Welcome. Welcome to Hexbear.net.
You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining instances. I thought so much of Hexbear.net that I elected to establish my shitposting here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors. I have been proud to call Hexbear.net my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to Hexbear.net.
It's safer here.
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wearying to see sOCiAl CrEDIt SCorE jokes on every fucking thread
general lemmy instances
Uh, well, all I can say it's good that you're here instead.
Many comrades were scattered to the winds that probably weren't online enough to know where we went. Everything happened so quickly, if you were logged off for just 3 days you could have missed the lifeboat discord and the subreddit's banning, along with most of the possible discussion of alternatives.
It's honestly a bit surprising that so many made it across in the first place.
Talk about Hexbear more, there's literally no reason not to and every time you do more people find it. Wreckers will pop up when you mention it trying to spread shit to stop people coming over but they're extremely easy to ignore. We built up a culture of silence about the place due to the performance problems the site was having - there is no reason to have that anymore, we should be promoting again.
I hated the discord era but it did help keep a good chunk of us in touch.
Sad so many of us got scattered. At least we get to celebrate when one of them make it back.
Yeah discord causes immense problems outside of small groups, once you get over like 30-50 active people in one space it quickly dissolves into quite a lot of personal conflicts.
Not that personal conflicts don't happen here but discord makes them far more public and stressful for people involved, which plays into ongoing issues day after day. You get them in any setting but different formats make them present in less problematic ways.
the exception to this is servers designed for a specific purpose, at least in my experience
like large ttrpg servers have been drama free for meI run a server of 1000+ and uh... there are certainly headaches. But it's not too bad because it is a specific purpose/marginalised community server.
I find I'm either shut out of conversations because America/Europe are asleep, or the chat moves too fast to have conversations (on servers above a size)
Yeah, I missed the actual final day or two. Found out about the discord due to some comrade DMing me, went there, hated it because I'm old and not online enough for Discord, but eventually heard about this place there.mlurked and joined about 3 years ago. Shoutout to that comrade who DM'd me. I'd have hated to have had to spend the last few years embroiled in the great scratched-liberalisation of Reddit.
I hated discord so much I cried in the slow channel enough that our nerds added me to the beta site asap to shut me up.
:michael-laugh:Discord: bad for the slow reactioned normals, bad for socialism.
I only found this place because some weirdo CHUD mentioned chapo.chat in a response to Will Menaker on Twitter, completely unrelated to anything he was talking about
thank you for your service dipshit CHUD redditor
Exactly. Just mention the place, even in weird out of context ways. If each one drags in one person and then we build a culture of those people also doing this we can rather significantly spread Hexbear.
Nooo , now you go into the Gulag
because we are in obviously in Denail about beeing 
... Somebody link her the Lore Iceberg ...
