Just wanted to share a thread for those who don't regularly venture out of the bear site. Can't cross-post since it's defederated. It's small but has some numbers about community counts, active users, etc and links to more info from https://lemmyverse.net/. Thought it was notable that Hexbear shows up no matter how you sort it.
OP image is community count sorted by active users in the last month.
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Half the thread is "I have never interacted with Hexbear but they are literally the worst instance and I'm so surprised they exist"
The funniest part of that is all the people who think we're a bunch of uneducated kids who base our opinions on nothing, while fully admitting they have never interacted with us at all. Yes I see. Tell me more about making opinions on something you know nothing about
yeah the accusations that we were born after 9/11 just do not hit, all reddit-styled forums (especially the fediverse) are skewed toward olds
CTH is famously an elder millennial fanbase too. Average Chapo fan age is certainly higher than the average Reddit user age
I remember the thread where we just posted Bush-era image macros. It's just the continuation of Something Awful - Twitter - here.
I think the average HB user could speak conversational 1337sp34k if asked by historians trying to restore that dead language.
"Finally, someone that can finally translate this ancient document!"
It's just the ASCII art header for a gamefaqs guide from 1998.
"...and this, what does this mean? Our best scholars are unable to decipher it. Is it a code? a hieroglyph? Or a heretofore unknown related language? We have deciphered the text below as referring to "soi", is it about a bountiful harvest? A precursor to the Soy "Jack"?"
"Hmm. Yes, I believe this is what the people at the time refer to as a "Roflcopter". The caption "my roflcopter goes soi soi soi" does not refer to the soy plant nor the soyjack, but an onomatopoeia of a helicopter, a now defunct method of air travel with an abnormally high fatality rate"
I didn't post on r/CTH but my political journey / "radicalisation" was based on joining the workforce in the aftermath of the 2008 crash and then losing my safety net just before covid and the employment hellscape that came after.
I've been through enough to know a decent amount of luck and privilege was the only thing keeping me off the streets, and I get a similar vibe from a LOT of the posters here. The idea this place is full of teenagers is absurd.
I think most r/CTH users originally came from Twitter and they made a reddit account specifically for that subreddit. The culture of the subreddit was so different than the rest of reddit and it was evident this was older Something Awful types or enlightened 4chaners who had seen the error of their ways. There was blatant contempt for the "Reddiquette" and frequent brigades, and in general just contempt for all of the rest of Reddit.
That's why they quickly became the new SJW, the new SRS of the site. The gamers and gooners and nu atheists and software engineers and funkopop collectors and the_donald users and the r/politics users all were able to unite against a common scapegoat, and the feeling was mutual. There was always the feeling a ban was inevitable, and the mods of the subreddit had to keep being recycled being they were being pressured hard by the admins to delete tons of stuff, and they didn't want to and kept getting ousted. Then the next group would come in and pretend to for a bit then stop lmao.
They say that because we post like zoomers and gen-a (not really we just aren't baffled by their memes).
In the vein of "only a Chinese or Russian person could be disagreeing with me right now about China or Russia" comes the new "only one of those dang kids today could be disagreeing with me right now about how kids today suck."
My favorite thing is them believing that everyone from Russia or China must have hated it there, and while there are some expats that are like that, most of the ones I've met (outside of Indians) really like or miss their country of origin. I'm not saying they are perfect (far from it) but they seem like no more totalitarian hellholes than the U.S.
Also you are talking to ex pats and emigrants who are predisposed to disliking their home country.
All the Chinese people who really like China stay there and don’t go on the English speaking internet to argue
TBH I know a number that sneak through the firewall to troll westerners, they're pretty cool. Some don't want to visit here tho cause the firewall blocks this domain. Maybe if someone reopens chapo chat and puts a Chinese interface on it we'd get a lot like that
I know some trans Chinese commies too
An infusion of Chinese shitposters would definitely be a nice boost to our posting powers
Importing Gojo-tier shitposters to change the very world of political shitposting
This would be pretty easy I think, seeing as we already have next.hexbear.net
Yea some people were trying to change the next domain to something like next.chapo.chat for the chinese users but it still needs some work
I’m a zoomer though what abt me :,’,(
BEGONE CHILD! Let the old gays, trans-femmes and occasional cis white guys post in peace!
Sidenote; Also zoomers are literally starting to graduate college rn, so still young but not like, 14 year old teenager young, the real big thing is that we, unlike .world or .trek, are not, for the most part, tech people. And if we are, we are usually tech-pessimists. Creates a huge posting culture difference.
Exactly why I can’t get into the rest of the fediverse that well
I’m the only person brushing the cobwebs under your chins out, show some respect smh my head :(
I was going to eat the food in there later!
Yep they have a lot of techno-optimists and techno-utopians and neoliberal “everything is getting better in aggregate” types
Zoomers are good, actually
The zoomers are the best of us
based
How the fuck do they sell that lie to themselves the entire discussion around isreal Palestine was basically "Jesus christ I haven't seen liberals this bloodthirsty to kill innocent brown people since 2001"
Were also the only people that seem to rember that reoublican presidents were fascists before 2016.
Lol Jesus Christ, Reagan was president when I was born.
I would assume most Hexbears are at least in their mid 20s, if not early 30s. I know we even have some older folks. Hexbear is many things, but a community of edgy teens is not one of them.
Not that I have an account on Hexbear, but I spend a lot of time here (and enjoy it). I'm mid-forties, college degree, well-traveled (mostly North America, Europe and Asia). I have only grown more frustrated with liberals the older I get.
Consider making an account here. I used to be on .ml, found myself spending most of my time here, and made an account. You can split time, or just stay here.
Personally, I enjoy my time here much more.
I've considered it. I don't really want to have multiple accounts, and for better or for worse, .ml is still more broadly federated.
That's fair! I do consider the benefits of not having constant struggle sessions like on .ml to outweigh a decrease in content. If the best content and comrades are federated with Hexbear, and the worst aren't, the good posts we lose are worth the tradeoff for me.
Helps keep your mind healthier too, I'm sure, not having to see the kind of garbage posted every 10 minutes on .world.
Yep, my thoughts exactly. Do what you want to, of course, but just want to put it out there that I was in your shoes and don't regret jumping. I still check in on .ml every once in a while, but I don't spend all my time fighting libs in the trenches anymore.
I'm old as fuck no comment on specifics tho
same
Old as fuck gang!
Old fucks rise up! Not too quickly though. And stay hydrated
I feel like I'm generally one of the older people here, but also there's no way to tell so...
Im baby. You don't know any better.
We may be one of the few chronically online forum communities that isn't made up primarily of either teenagers, tech-bros or retirees.
Early thirties, sure. Yes… that will do
Disgruntled 30-somethings are a force to be reckoned with
Time marches on, it's been 10 years since the subreddit went down, we're all big boys now
Iunno, I got here from GZD getting shuttered
No investigation, no right to speak.
That's what happens when you defed, you don't actually see what's behind Lemmy.world's Iron Dome and vibes become myths become "facts."
Same happened after CTH got banned. Tons of lies and myths instantly started cropping up about the devilish things that were once posted on CTH but could no longer be accessed. Everyone who hated Chapo was free to just make shit up and everyone believed it
Something something Parenti Quote
did you know that Hexbears worship TransComrade69 as a goddess and sincerely believe she does not poop?
I heard the SeventyTwoTrillion takes people with rational Liberal common sense to a stadium full of tankies and shoots them with an anti-aircraft gun
you haven't been to the biannual flakshoot at the 1st of May Stadium?
We are all just “trolls”
Like they think we are over here just pretending to be communists or what? Do they think we don’t hold the positions we talk about?
Legitimately, yes. They can never explain why we recommend Theory and meme about it, except the ones who think we are wreckers (somehow even amongst ourselves).
How could Hexbear be communist if we don't guzzle propaganda from the most communist nation that has ever existed; The United States of America?
And with this level of persistence and volume?
Thats where the russian bot thing come froms
Hexbear won’t beat the doping allegations
Russians are way ahead of us in bot technology
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We stan our trans Russian communist overlords
Nice
We are more well read than just about every single frothing liberal and chud lemmitor. Not that that’s a high bar to clear or anything.
I read state and revolution 1 and a half times
I've said it before and I'll say it again - reading one piece of leftist theory makes you more politically educated than like 90% of Americans.
Bit sad innit
reading one piece
of leftist theorymakes you more politically educated than like 90% of Americans.I'm finishing the Marinefort arc.