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:

  • 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • 💜 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

  • CARCOSA [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    95·
    2 months ago

    So happy to be here for 4 years with all of you, to another year of posting!

    !bestofhexbear@hexbear.net is a great community if you wish to nominate any post or comment chain for it

    If you want to apply to become a moderator of an existing community or create one please send me a mod application here or in matrix

    Application

    What is your Hexbear username?

    Do you have any preferred pronouns?

    What are your thoughts on capitalism?

    What are your thoughts on imperialism?

    What are your thoughts on trans rights?

    What are your thoughts on racial justice?

    What do think about current and previous protests around the world?

    What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?

    Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities?

    What did those experiences teach you?

    What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?

    How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?

    What current comms would you be interested in moderating?

    Do you have any ideas for community engagement?

    What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)

    Element information

    Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.

    To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser.

    The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:

    Press “Create Account”

    We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat.

    This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username.

    (Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren’t always open on chapo.chat; if they’re not, just create an account on matrix.org)

    Fill in a username and password

    Hit register, and you’re done!