Seriously, they’re doing my bits for me!
Honestly defederation is a really awful part of the fediverse. It would be so much easier to just let people block the instances they want instead of leaving it up to the mods to control what information users get, that’s one of the main criticisms of reddit too
I don’t want to be spoonfed the same rhetoric by the same people over and over, I like reaching out and actually listening to what people have to say and decide for myself - now to do that I have to make an account here instead of just browsing with my regular instance
welcome, comradethanks!
One of us one of us
We’re a cult we’re a cult we’re a cult!Wait I think one of the other instances did accuse of being a cult…
Which isn’t entirely wrong.
Cult of the lamb but it’s a bear that’s hexagonal
Welcome!
thanks!
Watching all the chaos that has ensued from the “brigading” is what pushed me to actually make an account on this instance too. You all seem like a really wonderful group of people beneath the pile of emojis and dunking and I found myself genuinely saddened by the idea of defederation so soon after Hexbear started making the place fun.
Yeah I have to say, I don’t think I’m a full blown communist but it was a real breath of fresh air to see people genuinely argue against the mind implanted hegemonic liberal narratives so many just believe intrinsically…
honestly when I joined I was a bit scared but I’ve been treated far nicely here than any other community I wanted to ask questions to, even generally leftist ones like vegans and such
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That was the nudge I needed to make an account over here. I joined midwest.social because it was an explicitly leftist server. I would have been very sad to lose access to the good posts here now that I know about them, and honestly I’m pretty baffled at the number of users native to that instance who are bitching about you all in that thread.
Edit: thank you all so much for the warm welcome ❤️
I also joined midwest.social because they claimed to be an explicitly leftist instance. It would be extremely disappointing if they defederate.
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Lemmygrad is a well drilled column of tanks with a shared mission. Hexbear is a constantly snowballing militia of half-mad generals, shellshocked tank commanders, and eager young comrades who heard them speak - constantly firing in all directions, but always outward.
The liberal craves order, predictability, even when facing it as their enemy. Hexbear is relentless and utterly unpredictable.
oh no we’re very predictable. we see a post, we hit send post.
“Tankie” is when you make libs uncomfortable so it’s not even about politics, we’re just ravenously online
I bestow on you the capybara tank, to reinforce your tank divisions!
Welcome to the bear site! We’re happy to have you.
Welcome, please enjoy the fine selection of emojis
One of us one of us
If you haven’t gotten a welcome glad to have you here.
It’s a little chaotic, there are struggle sessions, but so long as people come with actually open minds it’s generally incredibly friendly here.
Welcome!
Welcome to hexbear <3
Lemmygrad on steroids
Our grad comrades catching way to many strays since we federated.
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I saw some rage thread on lemm.33 calling the mods tankies for refusing to defed us.
Tankie just means anyone to the left of Biden now.
a friendly competition to see who can be more communist
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They are intimidated by the sheer size of Hexbear and keep forgetting how much you guys punch above your weight. Its like they got into a fight with the Vietnamese military and then turned around and suddenly saw
You’ve got to remember that we spent several years fighting every liberal on reddit and winning so hard the admins had to intervene repeatedly to try to stop us. God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
Does that make Lemmy users the shitposting Sardukar? Still individually worth 10 of the best Landsraad Lib house troops?
The other day someone called hexbear “lemmygrad-lite”. Moving up in the world ig
:exploding-van:
repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda.
Now this is dialectics
OH THOSE MEDDLING HEXBEARS!
As I understand it, Hexbear has existed for years before federating with the rest of the network. Someone commented a couple months ago about the closing of the Chapo Traphouse subreddit (2020, same as r/theDonfuck) and users moving there. I believe they already had a strong community before linking up with other instances.
I may be wrong on the details and welcome corrections. Hexbear users: I considered joining your instance when I was still a lurker. Try not to crucify me if I got anything wrong.
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I’d just add that the fork began before the site launched, in that month-long exile period on Discord. Recruiting for the project started on day one, and the deadline got pushed further and further back as we realized the scope of the undertaking. At that point, we had about a dozen volunteers from the community hacking on all sorts of random shit.
We added a comment / post reporting system, added a “site mod” permission (at the time, there were only community mods and site admins, and the site admin page exposed very sensitive operational details), tried to limit the number of embeds which could be included in a single comment (then left it at zero forever due to abuse), added a toggle to shut off community creation, added hCaptcha support, among many other changes. Some of these changes landed upstream early on, but even cherry-picking them was a chore. After the site launched, pronoun tags were added, and we ended up completely porting the UI to React.js for some fucking reason lmao.
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iirc it was immediate. it wouldn’t be in the post history because it predates the site.
June 2023: Hexbear gets back close to the rest of lemmy code, still maintains a slight fork, especially for the UI
The only reason for this is one of the nerds moved the banner 2 px to the right and the entire community went
mode.[extremely Picard voice] THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE!
Entirely deserved if you ask me
Pull requests take a lot of time ok
pronouns too actually lol
Upstream lemmy doesn’t want them because it’s too english-specific and they desperately want lemmy to be general purpose software that can be used by anyone in any language so pronouns are a no-go. It’s mostly admirable but sometimes they miss IMO. They want a general purpose flair system and are amenable to having pronouns be configurable as a mandatory flair, but that’s a lot of development effort so it hasn’t happened for like 2 years running
The only thing I’d add is that federation making it into lemmy’s code base did not mean the feature was complete or usable at all. Plus nobody would’ve wanted to federate with us back then anyhow, since we would’ve immediately dominated the conversation on any instance, since there were no other large instances around, which was basically the case until this year
Also lots of drama and harassment and people burning out
Edit: oh and actually, it’s worth noting, the development effort for re-merging with lemmy wasn’t just “migrate our data back to compatibility with lemmy”, it was “re-develop from scratch all our custom features and contribute them back to upstream lemmy (if they will take them)”
Hexbear devs (primarily @makotech222) are the reason that Lemmy has Custom Emoji, Taglines, Pinned/Featured posts, and probably a good handful of smaller things I’m forgetting.
Oh yeah. There were a lot of growing pains before the site culture stabilized.
Not that it matters but we were briefly a community of lemmy.ml (dev.lemmy.ml at the time) I between the discord and chapo.chat.
Yep, I think we added some features which broke compatibility with mainline lemmy and it took a while to merge back, but we’ve been around for 3 years.
It mostly was pronouns iirc
Our pronouns were too powerful for lemmy
looking for more pronouns to eat
I offer you a fishe honored visitor!We were like the second or third most active subreddit on reddit for a while, and when Spez shut us down some quick thinking people created hexbear as a liferaft. We’ve been growing and mutating in the dark for years while the admins and devs worked on getting our fork from early lemmy to a point where it could re-join mainstream lemmy, which is why we seem like we exploded from nowhere.
I literally have no idea what any of this federation stuff is or what it means
It just when different lemmy instances (servers) share content and user interactions instead of existing on one giant instance like reddit.
The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
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I literally thought this was a bit from a Hexbear user
It’s funny this is the same user whose comment I replied to 10 hours ago telling them about Hexbear being one of the OG instances (which is why it has a lot of users), but they go ahead and make the same thinly veiled “omg they’re botting!” accusation 4 hours later in a whole ass post trying to sneak diss y’all in their home instance.
lots of bad faith actors
got his ass
What’s up with Hexbear? They think everything I post is Western Propaganda, why would they ever think that?
New tagparagraph just dropped
I can’t believe these willingly federated instances are brigading hexbear!
Don’t they know you’re supposed to only stick to your local instance and that anyone who comments from another instance is a bot?
I got in in this one early and have been having a lot of fun
I’m about to go to sleep and at least with a laugh
The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people
I copied your post exactly without seeing it lmao
see pee see bots
Class interests? In my privately owned hegemonic media?
Now that’s good slop
th they called us racist 
and neoliberals!
