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.
Terms of Service | Code of Conduct | Modlog | Allow-list | PPB
We made it into a criminal justice professor's dissertation
https://hexbear.net/post/261782
Who's "we" in this case?
Also, wtf!
hexbear
OH!
Gotcha.
Maybe they should try listening to what people ask for before things escalate into violence, instead of provoking us and then complaining that we’re angry all the time.