My answer:

When chapotraphouse was banned on reddit many mods and users came together to create a space on a link aggregator platform.

Choosing lemmy the original admin and developer team decided to fork it for various reasons. About a year ago, sustained effort was taken to upstream many of the forked features so that we could rebase with current version lemmy and federate.

Over the years hexbear has become a non-sectarian social media space for sharing news, memes, links, posts and comments with each other as the mods endeavour to make the space welcoming to marginalized people.

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  • Nakoichi [he/him]
    ·
    9 months ago

    Hexbear is the only independent western social media platform that has been the subject of multiple libertarian think-tank pieces and likely CIA operations, and nearly one appearance on Australian national television.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
        ·
        9 months ago

        a couple years ago we bullied a terf hard enough she threatened to talk about us on aussie tv
        of course we just bullied her harder lol

      • Nakoichi [he/him]
        ·
        9 months ago

        lol really.

        https://hexbear.net/post/56333

        https://hexbear.net/post/184996

        https://hexbear.net/post/631450

        https://hexbear.net/post/80097

        The first two are actually about the old chapotraphouse subreddit from which this place was born.

      • sovietknuckles [they/them]
        ·
        9 months ago

        We made it into a criminal justice professor's dissertation

        The sharp rise in Violent/Aggressive Discourse in the Extreme Left is an artifact of the inclusion of Hexbear.net.

        https://hexbear.net/post/261782