Posting more. If you search "intel arc gpu in xcpng" on duckduckgo, hexbear is one of the first results. Search up "how to set up radial menus in vrchat," and hexbear shows up on page one in google. If we simply make more posts, the website will be visible to more people. The more varied the topics of discussion are, the more likely someone is to stumble upon hexbear. Also, making the site more friendly to new users will go a long way. I can't count the number of times I've accidentally clicked on PPB because it is at the bottom of the page. Maybe that shouldn't be something that happens to people who visit the website for the first time.

I've been seeing a lot of users suggesting exposure to hexbear on other social media. I think that besides search, that is the best way for hexbear to expand, since hexbear is embarrassing for many users. Another thing is that one of the places that gives hexbear the most publicity is lemmy.world. If gets users to migrate to lemmy, that means more people finding out about hexbear. And this goes for other websites too, since people leaving xitter will discover the federation as an alternative. Also, these days short form video content is very popular and more engaging for many people than text based content, maybe there could be some federated tik tok alternative or something.

Also the power of the trans userbase on hexbear keeps on growing! Making hexbear a safe space for our trans comrades will help maintain this growth.

Although, maybe the best way to grow hexbear isn't to increase the number of users, but decrease. Ban everyone but bureaucrat, and we shall continue posting under one name, more powerful than ever. This is how we can make hexbear great again.