On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image 
, a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.
I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.
I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds
Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?
- 🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
- 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
- 🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
- ☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086
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
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
Man, five years.
I wonder how the other r/cth downstream online communities have gone. Not enough to check, but…
Hands up who has been here for the whole time (give or take)?
I will not be looking into the chapo discord that I’m apparently still a member of
its a trip I didnt get into it until this site was already up, and then forgot it existed for years. I think I poked my head in during an extended outage here once
where are the other communities? i thought this was the only one this whole time
r/trueanon has a lot of the old posters and it has the closest thing to the same energy I’ve seen anywhere (including Hexbear)
i remember starting here and seeing a few regulars were just starting college, thought “damn a lotta the userbase here is pretty young.” recently see them talking about being 23 and in the work force, thought to myself “wait arent you in coll-, oh right…”
time took me from
to 
too dang fast…
I’ve been lurking since the start! Had a couple accounts since then.
i lurked on chapo.chat near the beginning but didn’t make an account, then fucked off for a couple years.
you can’t fool me my opsec is too good for that
I have not loved the directions most of the other related communities have gone. They’re all fine but I feel this place has matured more/better.
Been here the whole time; with a few grass touching break attempts.
What other communities were there? This and a discord are the only ones I know of.
I only really remember two discords. No idea how they are going
you’ll never find my old account(s?)
I was on the discord before the site launched.
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Been here since the start, was on the ark discord before