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)?
- π»Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- π Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- π₯ Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
- β Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
- β¨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
- π New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
- 𧑠Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
- β Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086
reminders:
- π You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- π Hexbearβs algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- π Sorting by new you nerd
- πΆ Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
- β€οΈFoundations of Leninism
- β€οΈAnarchism and Other Essays
Trump watching Satanyahu and realizing, "oh, you can just do it. Be evil openly and kill innocents by the thousands. When you're a president, the let you do it. You can do anything."
Gaza is the model.
Cop City is the homework.
It's coming.
Stressful thoughts of the future:
The genocide has shown that even with a direct live view into it and widespread condemnation, people are so isolated and the police state already so entrenched, it's hard to see how the US fascist machine will slow down without the bloodiest conflict, even compared to Gaza. A lot of people won't realize the horrific path the West is truly on until dozens are being killed while protesting or in deathcamps. I'm hopeful it won't have to be this way, and it's not impossible that the worst of the coming violence could be avoided, but I think it's important to be mentally prepared for the worst.Well put