I read the about. I still have no idea what this community is for. But it’s popping up in my feed a lot so figured it couldn’t hurt to ask.
We used to post on the chapotraphouse subreddit on but they banned the subreddit after we posted too many John Brown posts, so we started hexbear about 3 years ago. They banned it the same day they banned The_Donald. Probably didn’t want to appear biased. We’re a left unity group, which means we try to be welcoming to a lot of different types of socialists and communists and avoid infighting. We also have a lot of trans and gay users and accordingly are very pro trans rights.
They banned it the same day they banned The_Donald. Probably didn’t want to appear biased
Something commonly left out is that the donald sub was already inactive at this point, its users already fled to some other shithole in anticipation of being ban. The chapo sub was definitely explicitly targeted for being leftist.
It was the ultimate both-sides. I didn’t even realize there was a chapo sub until I learned of it’s closure. Def missed out.
@Hobbes@startrek.website this is the actual answer fyi
We are also VERY into Star Trek fyi
Wow. What a response! I am also a hard leftie and like star trek. Glad I asked.
welcome, friend!
A bunch of terminally online commies and anarchists who shitpost too much. If you’re not afraid to learn about leftism, pull up a chair while I show you pictures of my hamster. He is a very nice boy, his name is Biggs
little man :)
He is almost a perfect ball
He is a perfect ball. All future balls must be judged in relation to Comrade Biggs.
Secret untagged Biggs pic
i didn’t tag it because i’m 85% sure i posted it before
Entirely possible, I have the memory of a walnut
I think you accidentally a word and I really hope it was “online”
HEY, GUESS WHAT, ASSHOLE?
spoiler
you were right
OH YEAH, WELL WHY DON’T YOU JUST
spoiler
insert something funny here
Imagine hell but worse
A leftist social platform centered around community building through discussion, shitposting memes, and sharing content.
The junk drawer of posting
We just want to do star trek utopia irl.
The duality of man:
edited to try and make less confusing for dark mode users, sorry 💀
Imagine heaven but better
Hi, thanks for stopping by!
Do you happen to be gay? Cuz we all really miss @gayhobbes@hexbear.net, maybe you can fill his place.
You’ll have to fake an appalachian accent when posting
this is a thigh highs instance
General purpose. It’s one of the most active comms here
Welcome, please enjoy our star trek emojis:
I’m new here and had never seen most of these before and 🤩 wowee wow wow, that’s some good stuff, especially Hunter S. Picard and Quarx. Where can I find the whole trove and learn how to post them?
Where can I find the whole trove
The emojinomicon and the entirety of its contents does not make itself known to any Hexbear. It is a process of submitting yourself to the Hexbear and, as a result, discovering the words of power to call forth thine chosen warrior.
and learn how to post them?
Just hover your mouse over them to see their :emojiname: - but use the emoji button in the formatting toolbar to open the picker which allows you to search for keywords like ‘trek’ or ‘picard’ (whereas typing : will only show you ones that match exactly what you enter)
I’m mostly using Lemmy via Connect, but I’m saving this so I can reference it when I’m on my computer. Thank you very much!
The emoji comm has a pinned post with all of them (as of yesterday/until more get added).
Awesome!! Thank you!
Edit - omg, I just went there and saw the absolute dazzling array and comprehended the mountain of effort that went into making that post and recognized the username! YOU DID THAT!!?!
Holy shit. THANK YOU. We’re incredibly lucky to have you, what a badass.
@Parsani Did a lot of it too, and is the one who had the idea of pinning and locking it.
It is quite pretty to look at, I had to do it twice because the original attempt had all of them in the same post. It was beautiful, but unfortunately too good for this world (maximum post length).
thank you for the kind words
Hi, welcome! We’re glad to have you on our hexagonal bear site!
When you open the reply box click on the emoji smiley face and scroll down past all the normal emojis. Every hexbear emoji is there towards the bottom.
Rom, not quark, he had a beautiful communism arc
That makes a lot more sense, thank you!
Look out Quark! Rom is coming for your latinum with his comically large spoon!
And our Star Trek themed users.
I’m not really a Star Trek themed user, but I do have a Star Trek avatar
We are supermegacommunists and we will make you learn our peaceful ways by force.
General shitposting comm and also the official community of the Citations Needed podcast.
For clarity - It was a running joke on the old subreddit that the Chapo Trap House podcast hated us, and we hated them and were actually a Citations Needed fan club. This is half true - Citations Needed is good shit.