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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  • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Hexbear is where I have interactions with marginalized communists who tell me when I am a cracker and aLIB and help me stop. Also there are funny jokes so that I can laugh at things while becoming less of a shitty person.