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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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:

  • 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
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

The ravens in my neighborhood are doing something very unusual..

When they form their very noisy murder of ravens - they do so in the tallest/biggest trees in the neighborhood. They're at least ~25 feet from the ground. It's not unusual for them to be on the uppermost branches. But right now they are in a much smaller tree in my front lawn and they are just ~4 feet off the ground. Wherever I've lived in the US (plus Tokyo) - I've never seen ravens do that.

[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Could be monitoring fledglings on the ground?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

That's a good guess. I couldn't see much and I didn't move closer because I knew they'd fly away.

[-] Arahnya@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

One of the ravens thought it would be cool to sit at the bottom of the small tree, but then everyone else copied him. Now he gets to say "i was sitting on the lower branches of the small tree before it was cool! The rest of you are posers 🀬"

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

Ah. And all I heard was...

Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw!

Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw!

Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw!...

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

short perching ravens*

*^LATEST^ ^FAD^ kelly

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