Just wanted to share a thread for those who don’t regularly venture out of the bear site. Can’t cross-post since it’s defederated. It’s small but has some numbers about community counts, active users, etc and links to more info from https://lemmyverse.net/. Thought it was notable that Hexbear shows up no matter how you sort it.
OP image is community count sorted by active users in the last month.
Edit: sorted by comments
mfw thousands of internet strangers across multiple platforms spend their days complaining about me and 200 other gay communists
It isn’t big though. They just get kicked out of everywhere else they go for being disruptive assholes, so for every community there’s a hexbear duplicate
Duplicate with half the posts and a third of comments.
All of which are super politically charged
I like their indignity about politics being brought up ever, using that as an insult and mic drop like it wins the argument instantly. Such lib coworker ass energy.
They are bots and cheaters
no they are just a large instance
nut uh it’s all just politics
???
NOOOOOOOOO WHY IS EVERYTHING SO POLITICAL THESE DAYS I MISS WHEN IT WAS ALL NONPOLITICAL LIKE BASED MGS1 WHICH WAS JUST ABOUT GRUNTING AND ROBOTS AND CREEPING ON PEOPLE IN THE BATHROOM
disruptive assholes
I’m willing to bet most of us don’t interact with most of who we’re federated with. I know 99% of the time I don’t leave Hexbear.
Rent free as usual.
It’s so cute that they think their impotent whining is deserving of any consideration at all
They’re here because they couldn’t handle reddit anymore. We’re here because reddit couldn’t handle us anymore.
Also they couldn’t handle reddit anymore so they came here and immediatly started trying to recreate reddit.
They hate Reddit because Spez and Great Man Theory, not because of the actual structure and profit motive.
Also they hate reddit because of capitalism but don’t realize that and consider themselves capitalists.
"I hate how this website has gone to shit, injected adds into everything, and censored everything that isn’t squarely within the Overton window.
Time to pack up and go to a website coded and maintened by literal communists and call everybody who thinks the democrats suck tankies."
Yep, mentioning Marx becomes a struggle sesh. They are ultras when it comes to leftism, and right wingers when it comes to the US.
Classic liberal self importance.
“Everybody else should fight a revolution in the exact way I have deemed appropriate.”
Worse.
“Every successful revolution is evil, every failed one noble and pure.”
Except the color revolutions destroying the USSR, those were wholesome and pure
Isn’t that why they’re just copying everything, re-writing it can calling it sublinks?
in java
why learn rust when everyone knows and totally loves java?
My favorite part is them asking for Go language writers cause I think it ended up being mostly done in go. At least was major % of their repo last I looked
AbstractDefaultLiberalismFactoryDelegate.java
People be big mad about the beanis instance
The beanist instance ever
Frothingfash but he has beans falling out of his mouth
ROOKIE: This is how we found him, sir. Who would do such a thing??
DETECTIVE: Tankies is who. The beans are their calling card. That or a picture of a pig shitting on it’s balls.
ROOKIE: We’re gonna find 'em and make 'em pay, sir.
DETECTIVE: Forget it, kid. This isn’t like your training, Reddit’s got no jurisdiction here. Best leave it be if you don’t wanna end up BTFO with owl piss all over your shirt.
Their vision of the beanis instance is harshly disconnected from reality because they refuse to actually visit.
Damn I’m shocked how small hexbear is, if I’d had to guess I woulda thought you guys were like 30% of the fediverse. How does 98% of the shitposting and best reaction gifs come from 2% of the user base? Touch grass sometimes, damn lmao
Chapo.chat/Hexbear were having ancient struggle sessions when Lemmy was new. We posted long, we posted often and we posted in isolation. It’s like training in the hyperbolic time chamber for 4 whole years.
They merely adopted shitposting. We were born in it. Moulded by it. We didn’t touch grass until we were grown adults.
Touch grass sometimes, damn lmao
Hexbear presents itself as “an immense accumulation of shitposts." Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a
We got all the trans people and trans people can’t stop posting
walks the Earth.
We are powerful
Our posting power levels are just unmatched.
This has gotta be by sub count not posts or comments.
Same thing would happen on reddit when they’d post graphs of most “active” subredidts and people would be confused about why 2000 people on a subreddit about an obscure political podcast had more discussion than the NBA subreddit.
Someone posted this for comments.
Does anyone with more backend knowledge know if this includes activity prior to the lemmy federation?
I’m really curious if this is really all from the same time period
Our posters are more than 10 times as powerful as theirs
Sometimes I forget our power
Literally 10 to 1 let’s go.
jesus christ
it depends how you measure. I don’t think the OP of that thread is really picking great measures. But regardless of the measure you pick we are not like, dominantly huge, just very active. (well except total comments, I think we still are 50% bigger than .world on that with our sizable user base and few year headstart.
A strong centrally planned shitpost command economy
this whole site is a five year plan to develop productive forces for protracted people’s posting
It’s cause this community is only one of very few on the Internet so there’s more concentrated time if we want this particular environment
Whereas the user base and culture of most other Lemmy instances can be found in many places
Yeah if you are a lemmy.world user you are probably still spending most your time on Reddit. Very normie tastes and Reddit has better cat gifs
Given how many of them seem to complain about hexbear emotes, its almost like they see the emotes as a negative.
And then… and then… THEY SENT ME A PIG POOPING ON ITS BALLS
incoherent sobbing
I will never stop posting
For some reason that’s still beyond my understanding, Sh.itjust.works and programming.dev are churning pits of chuddery. When they were still attached to Hexbear, every interaction I can remember with people with those suffixes ranged from
to 
Sh.itjust.works is just reactionaries thinking they’re funny for naming their instance the SJW instance and programming.dev is filled with STEMlords.
Half the thread is “I have never interacted with Hexbear but they are literally the worst instance and I’m so surprised they exist”
The funniest part of that is all the people who think we’re a bunch of uneducated kids who base our opinions on nothing, while fully admitting they have never interacted with us at all. Yes I see. Tell me more about making opinions on something you know nothing about
That’s what happens when you defed, you don’t actually see what’s behind Lemmy.world’s Iron Dome and vibes become myths become “facts.”
Same happened after CTH got banned. Tons of lies and myths instantly started cropping up about the devilish things that were once posted on CTH but could no longer be accessed. Everyone who hated Chapo was free to just make shit up and everyone believed it
did you know that Hexbears worship TransComrade69 as a goddess and sincerely believe she does not poop?
I heard the SeventyTwoTrillion takes people with rational Liberal common sense to a stadium full of tankies and shoots them with an anti-aircraft gun
you haven’t been to the biannual flakshoot at the 1st of May Stadium?
Something something Parenti Quote
We are more well read than just about every single frothing liberal and chud lemmitor. Not that that’s a high bar to clear or anything.
I read state and revolution 1 and a half times
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - reading one piece of leftist theory makes you more politically educated than like 90% of Americans.
Bit sad innit
reading one piece
of leftist theorymakes you more politically educated than like 90% of Americans.I’m finishing the Marinefort arc.
is this Lenin?
yeah the accusations that we were born after 9/11 just do not hit, all reddit-styled forums (especially the fediverse) are skewed toward olds
Lol Jesus Christ, Reagan was president when I was born.
CTH is famously an elder millennial fanbase too. Average Chapo fan age is certainly higher than the average Reddit user age
I didn’t post on r/CTH but my political journey / “radicalisation” was based on joining the workforce in the aftermath of the 2008 crash and then losing my safety net just before covid and the employment hellscape that came after.
I’ve been through enough to know a decent amount of luck and privilege was the only thing keeping me off the streets, and I get a similar vibe from a LOT of the posters here. The idea this place is full of teenagers is absurd.
I think most r/CTH users originally came from Twitter and they made a reddit account specifically for that subreddit. The culture of the subreddit was so different than the rest of reddit and it was evident this was older Something Awful types or enlightened 4chaners who had seen the error of their ways. There was blatant contempt for the “Reddiquette” and frequent brigades, and in general just contempt for all of the rest of Reddit.
That’s why they quickly became the new SJW, the new SRS of the site. The gamers and gooners and nu atheists and software engineers and funkopop collectors and the_donald users and the r/politics users all were able to unite against a common scapegoat, and the feeling was mutual. There was always the feeling a ban was inevitable, and the mods of the subreddit had to keep being recycled being they were being pressured hard by the admins to delete tons of stuff, and they didn’t want to and kept getting ousted. Then the next group would come in and pretend to for a bit then stop lmao.
I remember the thread where we just posted Bush-era image macros. It’s just the continuation of Something Awful - Twitter - here.
I think the average HB user could speak conversational 1337sp34k if asked by historians trying to restore that dead language.
“Finally, someone that can finally translate this ancient document!”
It’s just the ASCII art header for a gamefaqs guide from 1998.
“…and this, what does this mean? Our best scholars are unable to decipher it. Is it a code? a hieroglyph? Or a heretofore unknown related language? We have deciphered the text below as referring to “soi”, is it about a bountiful harvest? A precursor to the Soy “Jack”?”
“Hmm. Yes, I believe this is what the people at the time refer to as a “Roflcopter”. The caption “my roflcopter goes soi soi soi” does not refer to the soy plant nor the soyjack, but an onomatopoeia of a helicopter, a now defunct method of air travel with an abnormally high fatality rate”
They say that because we post like zoomers and gen-a (not really we just aren’t baffled by their memes).
(not really we just aren’t baffled by their memes)
I’m a zoomer though what abt me :,’,(
BEGONE CHILD! Let the old gays, trans-femmes and occasional cis white guys post in peace!
Sidenote; Also zoomers are literally starting to graduate college rn, so still young but not like, 14 year old teenager young, the real big thing is that we, unlike .world or .trek, are not, for the most part, tech people. And if we are, we are usually tech-pessimists. Creates a huge posting culture difference.
In the vein of “only a Chinese or Russian person could be disagreeing with me right now about China or Russia” comes the new “only one of those dang kids today could be disagreeing with me right now about how kids today suck.”
My favorite thing is them believing that everyone from Russia or China must have hated it there, and while there are some expats that are like that, most of the ones I’ve met (outside of Indians) really like or miss their country of origin. I’m not saying they are perfect (far from it) but they seem like no more totalitarian hellholes than the U.S.
Also you are talking to ex pats and emigrants who are predisposed to disliking their home country.
All the Chinese people who really like China stay there and don’t go on the English speaking internet to argue
TBH I know a number that sneak through the firewall to troll westerners, they’re pretty cool. Some don’t want to visit here tho cause the firewall blocks this domain. Maybe if someone reopens chapo chat and puts a Chinese interface on it we’d get a lot like that
I know some trans Chinese commies too
Maybe if someone reopens chapo chat and puts a Chinese interface on it we’d get a lot like that
This would be pretty easy I think, seeing as we already have next.hexbear.net
An infusion of Chinese shitposters would definitely be a nice boost to our posting powers
How the fuck do they sell that lie to themselves the entire discussion around isreal Palestine was basically “Jesus christ I haven’t seen liberals this bloodthirsty to kill innocent brown people since 2001”
Were also the only people that seem to rember that reoublican presidents were fascists before 2016.
I would assume most Hexbears are at least in their mid 20s, if not early 30s. I know we even have some older folks. Hexbear is many things, but a community of edgy teens is not one of them.
I’m old as fuck no comment on specifics tho
Not that I have an account on Hexbear, but I spend a lot of time here (and enjoy it). I’m mid-forties, college degree, well-traveled (mostly North America, Europe and Asia). I have only grown more frustrated with liberals the older I get.
Consider making an account here. I used to be on .ml, found myself spending most of my time here, and made an account. You can split time, or just stay here.
Personally, I enjoy my time here much more.
I’ve considered it. I don’t really want to have multiple accounts, and for better or for worse, .ml is still more broadly federated.
That’s fair! I do consider the benefits of not having constant struggle sessions like on .ml to outweigh a decrease in content. If the best content and comrades are federated with Hexbear, and the worst aren’t, the good posts we lose are worth the tradeoff for me.
Time marches on, it’s been 10 years since the subreddit went down, we’re all big boys now
Iunno, I got here from GZD getting shuttered
We are all just “trolls”
Like they think we are over here just pretending to be communists or what? Do they think we don’t hold the positions we talk about?
How could Hexbear be communist if we don’t guzzle propaganda from the most communist nation that has ever existed; The United States of America?
https://startrek.website/post/13395265/11418872 this comment is wild lmao
That’s from @Emmie@lemm.ee, who was banned 2 days ago (CW for the removed comment) for fashposting
HAHAHAHAHA what a fucking Weirdo that’s so gross
Is that a guy? Name seems femme
Can’t see any pronouns on their profile or otherwise
Edit: confirmed, she is a woman.
“The good one” fascists of all sorts are especially vile, too vile to pity, even when fascism comes for them next, to their utter shock and surprise when it does.
Someone needs to check her estrogen usually it makes you cooler
Incel-to-liberal-fash-transfemme pipeline
There is a spectre haunting @Emmie@lemm.ee
"That’s doomer speak from too much scrolling. I once too believed these things for a time but the world hasn’t ended, improved even. I am no longer as depressed and regained clarity of mind. I hope you too can find peace and see the reason before all the time dwindles out like a sand from between your fingers.
I am typing it lying on my huge bed, with cat at my side, full fridge, iPhone, iPad, car with full tank in the garage, 100 sqm apartment I own in the comfy part of the city. Steady, mostly passive income. Free healthcare working ok, education.
Why would I want communism? I would have to be not okay in the head"
They’re anti communist because they’re bourgeois
so self-centered they cannot imagine consciousness outside of themselves. wall
I am just SO blessed and it really humbles me when I consider how much I have to be thankful for.
Why would I want communism? I would have to be not okay in the head"
Everyone I Don’t Like Is Mentally Ill, A Bedtime Story For Brunch Liberals
🍷🍷 (It really is fucked up how many smug internet people like to imply mental illness, or any other personal disadvantage, means a person is fundamentally wrong about everything and should be unheard and invisible. Fucking Calvinist shit)
(It really is fucked up how many smug internet people like to imply mental illness, or any other personal disadvantage, means a person is fundamentally wrong about everything and should be unheard and invisible. Fucking Calvinist shit)
Met a peckerwood from lemmy.ml the other day who had the nerve to ask “how many [of Hexbear’s posters in a subject about not supporting Kamala because we don’t do genociders] are actually POC”, didn’t correct me any time I implied their crackery, pulled that same “lmao ur crazy” schtick, and then had the nerve to that very same day “as a POC” another thread like… These liberals have no fucking scruples, whatsoever
These liberals have no fucking scruples, whatsoever
All of their hog slop has encouraged them to LARP as the unscrupulous adults in the room that have to make the hard decisions to get shit done.
Ulysses is back!
Steady, mostly passive income. Free healthcare working ok, education.
This happens so often. Talking to someone online who seems like the biggest oaf alive and then it’s revealed they’re a landlord/landlady
I’m comfortable so I no longer need to care
You won’t be comfortable for long motherfucker, one way or the other
They crossed that line between everyday villainy and cartoonist supervillainy
Life ain’t no Disneyland sweetheart… I will win no matter the system.
If you think you could game any system thrown at you, why be anti communist in the first place? If you’re gonna be fine anyway and it’s pretty clear she doesn’t give a shit about anyone else, then why have an opinion on any political system? No matter the rule of Man or God this great Ozymandias who walks among us has the acuity to transcend and thrive in any political system and they’re posting on a star trek forum about how communism bad?
The 3 arrows is
Anarcho-liberalism
You see, I have everything I need, in fact I don’t even have to work. Be happy serf, for your lord is prospering and does not care to dwell on unhappy thoughts.
'100 sqm apartment I own in the comfy part of the city. Steady, mostly passive income. ’
Landlord detected!
Could be some cryptogrifting/daytrading with their parents’ money, too.
It’s crazy how people can type shit like that and seemingly not once consider that it makes them sound extremely out-of-touch.
Why be in touch with the rest of the world when you can be in touch with yourself (committing to absolute selfishness and calling it self care)
They genuinely think they are being “grateful” and “humble” for their privileged life by bragging about shit like this.
These people should take a long walk off a short pier, or a long walk in Florida, either way
Making up shit out of whole cloth lol
To remember 9/11 you have to be at least in your late 20s or early 30s. Tells you something about these nerds that they think so badly of literally all young people.
I remember 9/11 very well, and anyone who lived in the last 25 years knows what it is like to live in the post-9/11 hysteria.
Moving to a different country actually reaffirmed my leftist positions. Turns out the more of society you see, the more left you are on average. It decimates all illusions. This is commonly known anyway, and represented in every electoral map for fucking ever
It’s ironic to accuse leftists of being unaware of other countries. When I was (more of) a lib I never learned that much about other countries. Now I’m reading a lot more books and watching a lot more non-English content from other points of view.
@Diva@lemmy.ml holding down the fort
“there’s actually a lot of LBGT people there, based”
It’s so uncanny to be a fly on the wall in other parts of the fediverse, I started subbing to a bunch of hexbear comms only after seeing people with an axe to grind against hexbear specifically and getting curious. A vote for bart is a vote for anarchy.
Great job, comrade! I’ve all but abandoned lemmy.ml, it was getting too frustrating to deal with the constant .world anticommunism.
Honestly the main reason I’ve been meaning to make a hexbear account has been to access the dunk tank, because lemmy.ml blocks it now
Could just join a random small instance that don’t block instances/comms on hexbear to continue being a fly-on-the-wall and access dunktank.
Spreadsheet of instances listing blocked instances and blocked by (BI and BB): https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
lmao why tf would they block that community specifically?
Lemmy co-dev and noted transphobe tutonic came in to defend one of the .ml admins who was getting dunked on for defending CSAM, got dunked on himself and so blocked the whole comm.
That was the catalyst for me doing the same! I was only on Lemmy.ml before it started blocking the dunk tank.
Aw, just saw this comment. Thank you comrade! 🥰🥰🥰
Ever met a brunch liberal that pulled the “I traveled to EXOTIC FOREIGN COUNTRY and had EXOTIC FOREIGN FOOD therefore I am right about everything and you are an ignorant peasant” card? I see that up there.
Going to London is about as far as many Americans get
And of course, the stereotypical European arrogance about being “well traveled” because they passed through a few countries on a day trip
I have some thoughts about travel as a way to acquire culture, perspective, and wisdom — or rather, the illusion of such. I might post about it sometime soon once I get my thoughts together, but basically at this point I’ve dialectically negated my old views of travel and decided that using travel as a means for enlightenment is a relic of colonial ideology. I don’t think one can learn much about other cultures without living among them for extended periods, years.
Just an FYI that fascist 3 arrows account emmie was doing 4chan shit here just a few days ago. The only thing that’s “genuinely sad” is how nakedly obvious they’re a hog’s troll account rolling in its own shit and blaming us for the smell.
I’m sorry if this is cringy, I literally only use HB (lurker), what’s .ml and why do they hate us? I was linked directly to HB when I started using, and haven’t ventured off until today but is .ml just Reddit with less users?
Lemmy.ml is the instance the lemmy creators own. They are also communists but its become a general instance (filled with liberals) since the reddit exodus. Lemmy.world is just reddit but with less users and is unfortuantly the largest instance by far. They “premptively defederated us, as a last resort” before we even enabled federation.
Ahh, so ml likes HB? I’m not super plugged into drama usually, but the libs make my blood boil. I had to uninstall Reddit, at this point it’s literally all just us propaganda.
Basically yes but if you don’t want to gaze at a sea of liberals constantly your only real options are here and lemmygrad.ml
What’s lemmygrad, just other marxist community?
It’s a more explicitly Marxist-Leninist instance instead of left unity like Hexbear and has more serious comms than shit posting.
I think ML are radical centrists who just want all teams to have fun and are ideologically opposed to censorship and defederation. The other instances are libs who start banning and blocking as soon as they hear something about communism that they don’t understand
Desslines has stated that they believe instances that jump to defederation of larger instances are dooming themselves, and they want Lemmy.ml to be the “face” of Lemmy.
Julian Assange is a bootlicker and Kremlin stooge who sold us out to the American and Russian billionaires. The Mueller Report proved he was explicitly trying to get Treason Trump elected and working with Putin to push disinformation to that end.
Now who’s bringing up politics everywhere? Guess it’s ok when it’s MSNBC slop
The world literaly just watched the American billionaire class coup the incumbent president through sheer media and money pressure.
But it was Assange that “sold us out”. Biden’s incompetence and evilness notwithstanding that is hilarious, like living in a cave.
Russia Russia Russia!
They openly state that their primarily goals in federation is to be obnoxious trolls, and boy howdy do they put a lot of energy into it. They are first and foremost, just obnoxious. It’s like 20% teenagers going through their edgy anti establishment phase, and then the rest are right wing, Russian, and Chinese trolls playing soggy waffle with each other. They pretend to be super serious about LGBT issues but then simp for Hamas, Iran and Russia. And one of their tankie leaders just got caught calling trans issues “western pink washing.”
It’s just a mess. It’s probably a bit overblown, but the community is legitimately annoying if nothing else.
one of their tankie leaders just got caught calling trans issues “western pink washing.”
I’m comfortable assuming this is bullshit, but is it a malformed reference to an actual event that happened?
Malformed. I’m pretty sure this was a lemmy.ml mod, not hexbear or lemmygrad.
If its neutonic then they are basically blaming Hexbear for only temp banning him. Assuming they are even aware that happened?
This is the representation of the true battle of good and evil
Hexbear is Cao Wei, seeking to usher in a new era of peace and stability free of the corruption of the last dynasty. Even if it means cracking a few eggs. Alas, their fate is incompetence of their offspring, to be eventually overthrown by dynastic infighting after their glorious leader perishes
.world is Shu Han, defenders of the status quo. They claim their heritage from
, though they are only 7th cousins. They care more about their military than their own children, often casting them aside..ml is the Kingdom of Wu, made up of many unique cultures, but always beset on all sides by conflict and corruption. Sometimes friend, sometimes foe, but largely irrelevant in the grand scheme.
Lemmy, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.
You’ve been here for like less than a month but you are already my favorite poster.
I was on .ml for like a year but like a few others said, I jumped over after the dunk tank got blocked.
lmao
besides the part where i was talking about reddit, when did i mention reddit? tankoids owned
Users: a fraction of .world, posts: near the same, comments: like 25% more than .world
lemmyworld stay losing
I think that’s all-time numbers, though, so we’re only in the lead because we had another 3-4 years before they existed. To avoid losing this lead in the future, we must continue to post more.
