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Hexday 2024, Happy 4th year anniversary nerds!!! - New General Megathread for the 24th-26th of July 2024

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

, 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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  • 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

    ::: spoiler 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! :::

  • My coworker told me the other day about how someone who used to work here got fired for bringing in their PS4 and playing video games on the clock using their work computer monitor and the entire time I was like

  • On my way down to DC to protest Netenyahu's speech and send a message to all the genocidal monsters in congress

    This is a good way to celebrate Hexbear's anniversary, my favorite post/event has to be mkuktrawide coining the phrase Genocide Joe and today I represent the corner of the internet where it happened

  • 4 years ago, I was waiting on the Discord for the site to launch. Then the site launched and I was like "hell yeah"

    Still the best site on the web

    But I'm a girl now

    hell yeah πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

  • Used the prolewiki page on the "Holodomor" to convince someone with no prior knowledge that the prevailing narrative on the subject originates in Nazi propaganda and they immediately accepted it hell yeah.

  • I have never seen astroturfing as effective as what's happening for Kamala right now. It's actually terrifying, leftist TikTok creators are getting destroyed in the comments of their videos for speaking out, and the libs are naturally eating it up. This to me is eerily reminiscent of the Obama campaign in 2008, back when I was still a lib myself. Kamala is not nearly as charismatic, but I am sure we still see some very forced parallel imagery.

    It's very early and time certainly has accelerated in the past few years, but unless something crazy happens between now and November, my instinct is that Trump is going to get steamrolled. They are running her as the younger cool mom candidate vs the nasty old white man, non-jaded zoomers will eat it up and they will set themselves up for their own Obama disillusionment in a few years. Nothing will fundamentally change.

  • happy birthday to the transgender communists on my phone.

    four years ago i was on holidays (like 50km from home because it was pandemic times) eagerly refreshing my phone to see when chapo.chat would launch.

    now i eagerly refresh my phone to see replies in my inbox and also i have pronouns

  • just got a 25% raise at work unexpectedly! Apparently it's what I should have been earning this whole time, as our union forced the employer to do an equal pay analysis and I was being paid 25% less than I should have for my experience and education. First time in my life I can remember feeling the financial burden ease instead of tighten

  • Four years of this place, makes me sad I missed it. Wife brought me here last september or so? and I made my account in November. Pretty cool webzone, hats off to the feds for orchestrating the creation of such a neat site.

  • Thank you to Hexbear and all of the comrades here for keeping me sane for the past 4 years. Without Hexbear I would still be posting in the trenches of r*ddit, arguing with the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. This website is unironically helping me stay sane.

    Special shout out to @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net for cooking up the megathreads.

  • I started doing an exercise routine again. I forgot how much it sucks at the beginning, everything is so sore.

    My next reps are gonna be two sets of straight snoozin'

    Might take me all day but I'm ready to make that commitment.

  • I'm actually glad reddit went to complete shit over the app bullshit. Otherwise I'd never have learned about Lemmygrad and subsequently Hexbear. These communities are the first time I really felt like I have a place online where I fit and that isn't a pickme contest like on FB or Twitter.

  • the Netanyahu standing ovations are so fucking depraved and the only non-Hitlerian elected official in the country is Rashida Tlaib, death to this excuse for a nation and a thousand apolitical gooner Pensyltuckians upon the halls of congress

  • "Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency." - Mao Zedong

  • FOUR MORE YEARS

    My wife just dropped a super complicated Lego sculpture my kid built and since I'm sick with nothing to do I was like ok I'll fix it

    She just dropped it again and I heard all the pieces scatter lol

  • someone make my thoughts into an effort post my brain is too fried right now

    what im thinking is that anti-capitalism, or anti-establishment themes, have been rising in media recently. squid games, the boys, parasite, etc. there are loads of satires of modern politics about how rich people suck and are racist - the menu, bodies bodies bodies, and some i havent seen like dont look up. these are permitted to be produced and marketed to mass audiences by capitalists because crucially, they dont actually present any solutions. they show rich people being bad and poor people being fucked over, but the resolution is always just "shits fucked, oh well, we live in a bad world". they point out that things are bad but don't entertain the notion that things could be better.

    consider how many movies and shows criticise modern politics and society for example - it seems like there are several of these movies made every year that become successful. now compare that to how much media is made that presents a solution, or shows people fighting back. how many popular shows have presented joining a union as a solution? how many have portrayed communism positively? how many show the satisfaction in the fruits of your labour being owned by you, rather than how many show how disheartening it is for them to be stolen?

    anti-capitalism is for sale. you can consume the products that make you feel like something is changing, because some people in hollywood wanted to tell a story that acknowledges that things are bad. ive watched three shows in the past few years that actually do present radical solutions - the boys, andor and fallout (all sci-fi lol, i dont even like sci-fi that much). fallout shows communists as decent people, and capitalists as evil, but thats about it. the boys is kinda about a group of anti-fascist revolutionaries/vigilantes, but is always teetering on the edge of liberalism and seems more concerned with being anti-trump specifically as of season 4. also it constantly tries to prove that being too violent in resistance to fascism is bad. andor is actually good so far, presenting small anti-fascist acts as meaningful, mainly the funeral in the last episode, and will in season 2 lead to andor joining the resistance for real and becoming a legit freedom fighter. also it has space stalin.

    its very ironic that disney and amazon are the companies producing the most radical shows, but again, they're profitable right now and i guess not enough of a threat in their messaging to stop being made.

  • I got fucking WHOOPING COUGH, my dudes!

    I haven't gotten the results back from the swab test but the cough I have is UNMISTAKABLE and very unique and it's gotta be. I am an infant, apparently.

    I really should start asking my clients to wear masks in my office; this shit is so gross

  • i've said variations of this before but in honor of the site's bday: this site is truly a window into what a kinder and more humane internet might look like. genuinely kinda baffling it exists, in a good way. (should still be named chapo . chat though you fucking bastards, the original subreddit was a wild and wonderful place and the pod is fine-to-good, why erase our history

    )

  • I tried touching grass once and the grass didn’t even try and start a pointless argument with me. Grass needs to log on and touch keyboard

    we have the best taglines folks, many people are saying it

  • I was at a coffee shop this morning, and the barista asked the lady for her name on the cup and she said β€œKamala”. The white lady in front of me shouted β€œYou go girl!”. The line started cheering. The whole coffee shop was clapping. A man wearing a MAGA hat threw it to the ground mumbling slurs under his breath as he left.

    I hate this town

  • I think you could describe Connor O'Malley's stuff as having a sort of Midwestern Gothic bent. There's a strong sense of regionality (fucking Rod Blagojevich turns up in the "Fuck Coin" video), and his style feels very influenced by the southern gothic undercurrent a lot of early Adult Swim stuff had going on.

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