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.

without a doubt. Wish I saw it firsthand.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

u/shitbird, dave, and shrekland

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

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

and I’m working on finding a photo of my third dog to integrate into the emote base. You cannot stop me

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

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

the anti-homestuck moomins posting was funny

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

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

Based_Ball's arc

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

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.

Enver_Hoxha

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

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

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.