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:
- π Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- π₯ Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- β Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- β¨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
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
- π If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here 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
Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry
death to youtube how is there 10,000 people somehow making livings delivering asinine, incorrect takes on films and videogames. every single fucking 'suggested' is a) a chud b) a slick-sounding bullshit merchant.
criticism really is dead and i'm showing up to the archaeological dig on top of the grave to say that, but why the fuck can't normal educated people make this shit anymore? i follow many actually trained entertainers & critics and none of them have the pull of these fucking amateurs. yahtzee crowshaw used to be a relatively low-end critic and he's practically ebert now (like he was never bad he just kept a tight format that excludes deep analysis)
Game criticism was always dogshit though, because you have objective-subjective component of how it plays (graphics, gui, tightness of controls etc), bound to it what you do with it on micro level (like quests/chapters/wondering) and separately story, with how itβs bound to first two.
~~Also ebert was a dogshit critic no? so it makes sense~~
no? he had dogshit opinions on certain things but a decade of professional writing before he even became a popular figure is an unimaginable level of literacy in comparison. maybe i was unkind with the comparison because yahtzee is probably just as qualified as any 'prestigious' critic at this point, but i was just trying to contrast self-important assholes that can actually read and turn a phrase to these buffoons that summarize wikipedia synopses & mistake their half-polished notions for Big Ideas that need 'video essays' about them
fair enough, i usually try to avoid encompassing judgements on what is opinion calls, i generally disliked him though.
society ready to consume increasingly differentiated slop, and the market provides
like how in the early 20th century yellow press proliferated