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
me & my lady friend have agreed to a once a week seeing each other schedule, to balance the clear fact that things are deepening against her understandable fears about getting close to someone new/desire to take things slow & her general work busy-ness & working on herself/her own mental stuff (before this we'd been once every 1.5 weeks - 2 weeks and once 2+). i'd be open to a little more than that and i do miss her during the week and can occasionally get frustrated, but i'm also a bit lonely and should be wary of looking to her as the sole plug to the hole that is my loneliness so this is probably good for now.
apparently attachment theory does have some scientific backing, so IG it seems i can occasionally get a lil anxious attached and maybe she can get a lil avoidant. but idk we've been communicating extremely well so far, in ways that feel kinda jarring compared to a lot of my previous romances, so i think by working together we can probably be healthy and secure overall or whatever.
It sounds like things are just getting better and better dawg so tell that anxiety to shut up or i'll punch it
ur so right if only anxiety's bitchass listened to reason but dont worry im keepin his sorry shitty face & personality in check