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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years 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.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Definitely TC69 bullying people into reading Leslie Feinberg. It worked on me and helped clear out some residual brain worms. People were MAD about that one too, lmao

[-] Biggay@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

I think I was one of the rare people who found kerryposting to be really fucking funny as a form of spam. But if we're going even further back it would probably be the reddit days when both cumtown and chapo podcasts were talking about the sub for two weeks simultaneously. Lots of funny struggle sessions over podcasts that are just simply gone now

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I know he's been banished now but virgil-sad's antinatalism cold open after the subreddit reacted negatively to the Chapos telling people to have kids was one of the funniest things I ever heard.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Remember that bot (I'm pretty sure it was actually a user doing a bit and not a real bot, lmao) that scolded people for not putting their posts in the community that most closely matched the subject?

The "adjust your posting in line with this guidance" or whatever bot? That one just popped back into my head. People were so pissed, it actually started a struggle session. Years later, I'm not very proud to admit that I was one of the people being laughed at for getting ass-mad at a bot telling me what to do. I even reported it like a dozen times for spam. I downbeared whenever it showed up. That in particular is really embarrassing in hindsight considering reports are not anonymous and neither were downbears.

[-] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Rock stacking was one of the best struggle sessions we ever had. It was everything we pretend outdoor cats was, but even more specific and heated.

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think the clear winner for me is the time someone made a post with the hot take that hating on pumpkin spice lattes was sexist and that was like the activation phrase for this one guy (who had been around for months!) to go completely mask off and post a bunch of reactionary shit, and then make multiple accounts named after various Hanna Barbera properties to be a wrecker for months afterwards, in the process proving the original take 100% correct.

Edit: Some of the comments are actually still up for some reason. Here's one. (cw: death threat) Or how about:

Looks good, better than drinking whore coffee.

BUT I LOVE WHORE COFFEE!

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

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 dark ages of Hexbear

[-] Wisp@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Liberalsocialist and bmf. Absolutely powerful posters

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Nancy Pelosi's cell number

[-] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago
[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

User gayhobbes and his posts

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://hexbear.net/post/85015

I found this Hexbear Iceberg. Everything level 4 and below is beyond me. Most of the stuff above that I've seen talked about recently.

"O-Anon" and "Only 20 posters actually use chapo.chat" are interesting

Edit: Hexbear started OK Boomer? Based

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Everything level 4 and below is beyond me.

:::spoiler Here's PPB after the poop slid off

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

walter-breakdown It's beautiful

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