I've been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I'm still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There's so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don't perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.
Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn't handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site's cultural memory as a result.
The year long path to migration back to lemmy started because I was annoyed that the page refreshed randomly on mobile view and it annoyed me enough to start poking around and get involved with the dev team.
I took an extended grasstouching break and came back recently. Idk if people who are on here daily notice how much better and more responsive the site is now. Wish I could still make emojis bigger with # though
Oh yeah you left the D&D server and then I don't think any of us heard from you again. You missed @Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net using his breath weapon in the sewers and decimating the trade district.
Yeah, I was going through a pretty rough time, and as much as I liked the idea of being in that game, I had a bunch of other shit that I needed to work on. Thankfully I'm in a much better place now
In my defense, at that moment I was also at an extremely low point in my life. Usually I'm not the type of guy to initiate a total party kill but I was in a real not good mood that day
Just make an account on a different instance. Emotes are HUGE over here.
It's so cool. And it really made other instances extremely mad and was very funny
Pigpoopballs just hits different when it takes up half the screen. (Sadly, only the cartoon one does that.)
This action resulted in a dramatic improvement to the enjoyability of my time fucking around online, and I am very appreciative. Thank you!!
remember when we made the TERF with the "giggle" app very mad? she shouted us out on twitter and almost on live tv but not quite
oh holy shit, how did i forget about Sall?
that was our finest moment. that app is still down i think lmao
Giggle app reviews:
I can't even access this app. I tried taking 32 pictures. Hair up, hair down, make-up, no make-up, different lighting, facial expressions, none of it worked. So I tried to reach out to support via email when I was prompted to do so. And my email was blocked by the recipient address. What's the point of having a support email line if it won't even accept our messages?? I was so looking forward to a female-only space. But now I just feel alienated. Thanks for that.
So you make a specific profile for a specific topic and search for other people interested in the same topic. But it never explained how to connect with people. I tried liking their profile, swipping right or left, but nothing allowed me to chat with anyone. The only other option was the open forum, which was about 90% anti-Trans rants. I also doubt an app that claims it knows my gender by how my face looks. The concept is great but it's use is unclear and its lacking in active, diverse users.
Too recent to be lore really, but LiberalSocialist the main character of Hexbear. Its what the unions wanted!
To think there was such a long stretch where Eugene_V_Dabs' body of work was inaccesible to anyone who hadn't already saved it.
Edit: Oh also the time Big Money Salvia dropped by.
It's not really lore, but I miss the bedtime cat posting that gradually had a broader and more absurd definition of 'cat' over time.
Oh my god I forgot about that.
I'm going to bring it back
Thanks comrade. I tried a while back but it didn't get much traction.
BMF and their various successors will always be my fav.
Edit: I think my second fav which idk if its even like a thing most people remember but I just remember it in particular.
There was some discussion about communal canteens replacing restaurants in a post-revolutionary society and I remember someone just went full socialism-with-vault-tec-characteristics and started ranting about how no one will have access to any personal kitchens at all, so that a proper and correct single solitary diet could be enforced upon the community.
Was SilverLegion recent or was that closer to when hexbear started?
i feel like it was super early
similarly (or even related idk), i feel like JOHN KERRYposting was like day 2 of this website lol
My second favorite piece of Hexbear lore is that three of my four pets are emotes because I’m drunk with power
and I’m working on finding a photo of my third dog to integrate into the emote base. You cannot stop me 
wait what? I thought
and were cutout from memes??? Your cute pets are famous!!I didn't know they were yours either! I'll make one of comrade Bailey :corgi-posting:
Oooo do we got another corgi up in this instance? My little homie is a Maoist-Third Worldist and constantly tells me to read theory.
Our chihuahua is a Barxist and he also tells me to read theory all day.
My dogs call me a shitlib constantly
My corgi reserves 90% of his brain to devising treat acquisition schemes and the other 10% is pure vibes.
Our cats are the real meowists in our family
Oh comrade, we have much to talk about. I am yet to own a "typical" corgi, this current one is the silent and snuggly type.
My wife's family has had 4 corgi's since I've known them and my wife and I have had 2 corgi's. All of them had different quirks and features, lol. Current one wanted no touch at all, maybe the occasional head pat, then he turned 2 and a switch flipped. Now belly rubs and snuggles are party mandates
I posted the Zootopia comic where Judy Hopped gets shot in the head like JFK
TC69 banning anti-trans users complaining about pronouns by using the downvoting records was so fucking funny.
RIP in pepperoni to that one user that insisted on downvoting every megathread on principle because pinned posts are authoritarian or something and then got banned after they downvoted a megathread about trans rights.
A real one sticks to their principles, no matter how inane they happen to be
I do love that Hexbear has singlehandedly thrown off results for surveys about left wing violent rhetoric
I don't have it handy but it's a formal looking study. On mobile, but im sure another user will swoop in with the paper
I wasn't really lore, but I found the thing we're everyone claimed we were based on Liberal mountain, Idaho thing funny
Show
without a doubt. Wish I saw it firsthand.
