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

I've been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I'm still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There's so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don't perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.

Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn't handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site's cultural memory as a result.

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[-] makotech222@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

The year long path to migration back to lemmy started because I was annoyed that the page refreshed randomly on mobile view and it annoyed me enough to start poking around and get involved with the dev team.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I took an extended grasstouching break and came back recently. Idk if people who are on here daily notice how much better and more responsive the site is now. Wish I could still make emojis bigger with # though

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[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

This action resulted in a dramatic improvement to the enjoyability of my time fucking around online, and I am very appreciative. Thank you!!

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

dprk-soldier without a doubt. Wish I saw it firsthand.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

yall know it had to be this badboy dprk-stare

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[-] VHS@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

remember when we made the TERF with the "giggle" app very mad? she shouted us out on twitter and almost on live tv but not quite sicko-wistful

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

oh holy shit, how did i forget about Sall?

that was our finest moment. that app is still down i think lmao

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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Too recent to be lore really, but LiberalSocialist the main character of Hexbear. Its what the unions wanted!

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago
[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Power dynamics

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

The power imbalance!

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To think there was such a long stretch where Eugene_V_Dabs' body of work was inaccesible to anyone who hadn't already saved it.

Edit: Oh also the time Big Money Salvia dropped by.

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

It's not really lore, but I miss the bedtime cat posting that gradually had a broader and more absurd definition of 'cat' over time.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Oh my god I forgot about that.

I'm going to bring it back

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

cat-com Thanks comrade. I tried a while back but it didn't get much traction.

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BMF and their various successors will always be my fav.

Edit: I think my second fav which idk if its even like a thing most people remember but I just remember it in particular.

There was some discussion about communal canteens replacing restaurants in a post-revolutionary society and I remember someone just went full socialism-with-vault-tec-characteristics and started ranting about how no one will have access to any personal kitchens at all, so that a proper and correct single solitary diet could be enforced upon the community.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

u/shitbird, dave, and shrekland

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[-] Tomboys_are_Cute@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Was SilverLegion recent or was that closer to when hexbear started?

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

i feel like it was super early

similarly (or even related idk), i feel like JOHN KERRYposting was like day 2 of this website lol

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

My second favorite piece of Hexbear lore is that three of my four pets are emotes because I’m drunk with power sicko-power

sleepi scared doggy-beg and I’m working on finding a photo of my third dog to integrate into the emote base. You cannot stop me party-sicko

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the fourth animal has arrived dog-screm

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[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

wait what? I thought sleepi and scared were cutout from memes??? Your cute pets are famous!!

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

holy moly i had no ideaoly screm-cool

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[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was the Zooptopia bunny post here or on r/cth?

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

That one was on r/cth but I consider it spiritually part of Hexbear

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

She's still with us. Always has been.

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[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

TC69 banning anti-trans users complaining about pronouns by using the downvoting records was so fucking funny.

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[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

the anti-homestuck moomins posting was funny

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I do love that Hexbear has singlehandedly thrown off results for surveys about left wing violent rhetoric

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Slavers should be shot", and other controversial statements

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[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

The threateningly cheerful guy on the cover of that kitchen appliance cookbook. There's an emote of him in the mix but I forget what it is.

Also when we caused a massive spike in that one researcher's "violent rhetoric among political extremists" chart

[-] ultraviolet@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Based_Ball's arc

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

It’ll be neat when we reach the time that it’s been Hexbear longer than ChapoChat by like a factor of 10. We’re probably at what like 2 or 3

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Not really lore, but I always love seeing certain users who just have a certain type of post they're always busy at. DirtOwl with their owl pics, the one user who continually posted old swords, idk if its the same user but another long marathon of gun posts. Just really cozy.

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

u/Tervell does the sword and gun posts

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@Tervell@hexbear.net is an unsung hero. I love his video posts even though they don't get much interaction.

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[-] crime@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Peter Singer spammer, where someone got so mad at being banned that for at least a day they made HUNDREDS of accounts to spam the opening paragraph of Peter Singer’s Wikipedia article, making a new one seconds after they got banned. It’s only recently occurred to me that, since account creation was and is rate-limited by IP, they had to manually toggle their VPN every single time they got banned, only to get clapped again mere seconds after michael-laugh

Even if it was automated, that means they had to write a script that could do that, which is equally funny to me

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

The Great Vegan Struggle Session was fun. But honestly, a lot of the "Lore" makes me feel sad. We lost a few good comrades in the early days of constant struggle sessions.

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