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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    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      1 year 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 [they/them]
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      edit-2
      1 year 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]
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      edit-2
      1 year 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