"So, you mean they're homophobic?"
"Well, no, but-"
"So they're misogynistic? Racist? Transphobic? Ableist???"
"N-no, actually they enforce strict banning on all those things, BUT-"
"So they bully people into suicide?"
"Nooo, they require content warnings for even mentions of suicide, BUT!"
"...Yes?"
"I saw one of them say 'death to nazis!"
"So they're the opposite of 4Chan?"
"NO!"
Hexbear captures a bit of the wonder of the early days of the internet for me. It's something that was lost in time but has now returned in the year of our lord 2023. Hexbear has quickly become my favorite online community/forum. Its unique culture, including features like 'struggle sessions' about outdoor cats, makes it even more endearing. Additionally, the news megathread is greeeeat.
Yeah, being on Hexbear/Chapo.chat the past few years with various accounts is the first time I've felt that internet community spark I had back when I was on forums with IRC channels.
I mentioned this on one of those "why did you pick your instance" threads right after federation, but it's so true. The whole vibe here really does recapture some of the great parts of the late 90s early 2000s small independent BBS experience that was all but wiped out by Facebook and
. It's got a kind of coziness and unique culture that I thought was gone from the Internet forever. It's great.Yep. I think that makes it incredibly off-putting to people who aren't expecting that, but that's why I love this place.
Especially folks who are too young to have been a part of that Internet. It's hard to believe, but this is like what being online was like 25 years ago.
Remember when you remembered people's names and avatars and forum sigs and made connections with real people? The internet used to be like that! Some parts of it were very cool! We felt a sense of community for our little corners of the internet!
I appreciate hexbear bringing back that feeling.
I read a few threads complaining about hexbear and was surprised to find myself agreeing with a lot of the hexbear users replies.... so now I'm here too 😊
This is the chapo way. Even if everyone defederates from us, we're still the
and we'll get tons of growth just from libs talking about us in hushed whispersThey always try to demonize us but it doesn't work. Its not like 4chan where you go there and you're immediately horrified.
You come here and people are like "look at this cool mushroom" or one user that has been posting swords for 3 years straight and you're like "ok these claims are greatly exaggerated".
You're literally the second person that's signed up today with twink in their username lol
Wait, the boy kisser isn’t an actual emoji? You should post on !emoji@hexbear.net.
but it doesn’t appear in the picker or when typing with :
and these one above display like images, blurred and having to click “show”there’s no results for :boyk
and I’m not signing up for hexbear gold 
Maybe this a mobile cache thing, gonna fuckin’ wipe it all and hopefully remember my password or it’s new account time.
ok, password remembered and it works now, this having to wipe data every week for updates is getting annoying but at least things work for now
Another victim of the tankie mind virus noooo
Soon you’ll only be able to spell the word cracker as kkkrakkker
@Twink@hexbear.net and @nonbinarytwink@hexbear.net in one week? Truly, our cup overfloweth!
Welcome!
The great tradition, I followed it myself back when reddit was hyperventilating over something called Chapo Trap House
Welcome
"Go back to chapotraphouse" they told me.
"What is a chapotraphouse?" I asked.
Hexbear has extreme posting power and a cohesive site culture like 4chan does, but unlike 4chan, the usersbase isn't made up of weird misanthropes.
I'm not sure HOW one would be a lefty without having some faith in humanity.
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”It's really more the remnants of my faith in humanity from before fifteen years of posting atrophied it and pure obligation
From reading comments of 70s/80s music videos made by the people who worked behind the scenes on them recounting their memories of the process, along with translating foreign social media and seeing how similar shitposters are across the world
I thought I was but it turns out everyone in my particular hometown just sucks
most of us aren't misanthropes, but we're definitely weird af lol
i get your drift, tho, this place completely lacks the malicious destruction of any respect for oneself and other human beings that is the hallmark of 4chan
You don't fucking know how happy I am it made it in! :sicko-yes:
From cross site emoji posting, to cross site emoji submitting. I'm really pushing my limits here :garf-chan:
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cat-vibing is literally my favorite thing to use in conversations with friends (thanks hexbear sticker packs), and has been since it was introduced and it does NOT get enough love around here anymore.
its very outdated at this point but I can find the link, someone here made it back in the day (a year or two ago)
Oh and to be clear it's a sticker pack for Signal, no idea about other messengers
This is the first time I’ve heard of Hexbear. Can someone explain what it is?
we're a socialist community with a largely casual/shitposting tone that descended from the banned /r/chapotraphouse subreddit. we've had our own site for about 3 years but just recently federated
We also love the greatest revolutionaries in trek, in particular
and 
I was actually looking for an O'Brien emote the other day, could've sworn we had one
DAE realize the head of the teamsters is name Sean o'brien? Shit threw me for a loop for a minute.
I never knew I needed a Guy Fieri emote in my life but I do.
We're a bunch of leftist dorks.
We also love Star Trek!
chapotraphouse was a podcast, but we decided that we outgrew those nerds and renamed ourselves after a meme we latched on to for some reason. We do our best to be a safe space for leftists on the internet, as well as an LGBTQ ally space and a vegan friendly space.
We also cuss a lot and say exactly what we think about political corruption/ the violence inherent in the system. These are not incompatible with being fundamentally empathetic-they stem from that very same empathy!
If you ban transphobes and racists on sight, you're just like 4chan. That's why we should be like the enlightened lib instances and let them be.
The only good nazi is in the
, same goes for transphobes, but I repeat myself. 
I take the reformist view that they're good from the moment they start playing the piano
Rehabilitation is when you start playing the piano, and the longer you play the more rehabilitated you are.
That story is apparently fake, and the picture that goes along with it is just of some Red Army soldiers playing a piano they found.
Convincing the conservatives that we're the more civilized option, one barf at a time.
Yeah, I changed my mind on liberty. Your desires need to be suppressed.
If I cant piss and shidd and fart its not my revolution
hexbear tankies are all shills for the Piss Wizard
No coincidence you're all posting on gender neutral bathroom time
If this is the 4chan of the left then where is my zip file entitled "Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks" but is just gigabytes of dolphin porn?
You mean Savage Species? I guess character options that overpowered are LIKE porn...
Welcome!
welcome aboard, we love our trans comrades here 
> 4chan
but he's more like Guy Fieri at home
They better keep it that way