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Happy Hexweek 2025, Happy 5th Anniversary nerds!! - Novo General Megathread for the 21st-27th of July 2025 (hexbear.net)

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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)?

🐻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:

❤️Foundations of Leninism
❤️Anarchism and Other Essays

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I googled.

As Yang put it, his preferences were part of “the canon of alternative music,” which were found on the playlists of 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation during MTV’s late 80s and early 90s heyday.

Expounded on some of his music favorites after unearthing his class of 1992 High School yearbook, Yang went on list as some the bands he listened to as: “The Cure, The Smiths, and Depeche Mode. And when they arrived with Joshua Tree, U2 somehow was there. REM. I liked Siouxsie and the Banshees, I liked The Sugarcubes.”

“I really like New Order and Joy Division, of course. They’re in the canon. And Erasure too,” he continued, going on to refer to the transition from “the original arc” into grunge elaborating that “and then in the ‘90s it became more Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden.”

APRIL 22, 2019

https://post-punk.com/andrew-yang-promises-to-be-first-ex-goth-president-says-he-is-cure-depeche-mode-and-siouxsie-fan/