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On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

reminders:

  • πŸ’š You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • πŸ’™ Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • πŸ’œ Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

willem dafoe is the thinking man's keanu

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tragedy: spilt some olive oil on my shorts

ooooooooooooooh

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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

My boss just came in to work while Covid-positive. Wtf I just got over this shit (and got it at work, because we didn't follow any reasonable precautions)

[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

critical support to sex, and by extension (sadly, embarrassingly, reluctantly)....horny

[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

It's weird reading fan-translation done by high school kids from 15 years ago. This person is talking about exams in their little blurb at the end and I'm like this person is now 35 years old.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

You'll never guess what event caused Fetterman to put on his big boy clothes for work

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Imagine getting banned for doubling down on a bad take on the sites anniversary

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Living in a centrist regime and looking upon the massive billboards with the leader's face that say "vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote"

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[–] CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

4 years is pretty nutty

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sprinkled a lil cinnamon on my bowl of blueberries and DAMN. RECO-FUCKING-MEND

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Facebook report: Kamala has dethroned Hilary as girlboss but it kinda seems forced and JD Vance fucking a couch cushion is the new Trump fetish speculations. It's 2016 except Kamala is literally not Hilary Clinton and therefore has a chance.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait the dauly wire literally hired someone that looks like a yassified ben shapino?

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago
[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

morshupls you are now reading this comment as if it were a strung together youtube poop made out of morshu voice lines

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I love how now "good rpg" means good writing/choices meanwhile ARPG/diablo slop fans literally only care about "gameplay" (use spreadsheets to explode everyone 0.1 sec faster)

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

English major co-worker told me she really enjoys hearing me speak, my vocabulary and word choices are fun and interesting and she catches my literary quotes that I sneak into sentences and stuff. I speak a LOT like Matt Christman and did before I heard the guy, thats what hooks me in the first place. But yeah, it's nice to hear from a qualified person that my rhetoric skill is as high as I think it is. Also I've learned that you really don't need to learn much about English to get an English degree. Her Anglo Saxon etymology crushes mine but her Latin is trash, I think I can just figure those roots easier cause I also speak French but like, I'd expect someone formally educated to run circles around me but I've had to tell.her what words that I've used meant pretty often. Anyway, felt nice.

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[–] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The Long Haired Conservatives: the Children of '68 Reconsidered

interesting read ive had yesterday, heres a great excerpt:

"The purpose of this essay is to correct the oft-made assumption that the children of '68 were Marxists intent on tearing down American society and reconstructing something new, socialistic and, most terrifyingly, foreign in its place. Naturally there were some elements within the New Politics movement (I shall explain that term later) who wanted to do precisely those things. But this article argues that the vast majority of the kids at Chicago were in fact radical conservatives who came from a very American tradition of anti-authoritarianism. Their aim was to challenge and reverse the growth in government that had begun in the 1930s. Not truly belonging to the far left at all, they were anti-bureaucratic and shared many similar traits with their contemporaries on the American right. Therefore, it is my contention that the wrong lessons have been taken from 1968. The New Politics was a fundamentally conservative movement, not a leftist one."

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

OK Stav is actually good in that Netflix show

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Hookup success talk.I'd like to take the time to thank my grindr hookup Nate for (a) not ghosting, (b) maintaining communication, (c) trusting me, and (d) doing what you did at the very end, my god, you're a naughty boy to do what you did with a smile, glad you asked me first for my contact info, text me sometime, cutie.

I'd like to also thank the "equipment" company Rouge for making Nate look fantastic in bergundy red leather of obviously top construction quality.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago
[–] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What was that sound? Did you hear that? Wait here, I'm going to see what it was.

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