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 dprk-soldier, 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)?

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

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  • moonlake [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    I went to the cinema to see 28 Years Later and it turns out that it’s absolute kino absolute-cinema

    Looking forward to the rest of the trilogy

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      6 days ago

      I really loved 28 Days Later but never bothered with the Weeks sequel, would you say the newest is comparable to the first in tone and quality?

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        4 days ago

        I think I haven’t watched the first one so I can’t compare them. I wouldn’t call this a horror movie, it’s more similar to the Last of Us in the sense that the zombie apocalypse is a backdrop instead of the main focus. Check it out if you’re a movie guy