tectonic plates shift; rivers carve canyons; online communities spring up, grow, and then peter out, get shut down, or fall into an eternal waking death of of stale mediocrity.

the subreddit was built up over a period of multiple years. it was undeniably something special that can't just be photocopied onto a new domain name. but we can build something here too, something new. i went back and read https://hexbear.net/about. the leadership here clearly give a shit about this place. it's only been half a year since we got banhammered. i know it feels like the end of the world everywhere in general, and it has for the last couple decades, or maybe ever since you got invested in left wing politics, but there's beginnings too, and we're still on our bullshit.