On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.
Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them 
, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.
dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?
I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here
Megathreads and spaces to hang out:
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
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Theory:
Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry
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Disagree on Sage. There’s a lot of different ways to be smart, and political realities don’t necessarily turn people into communists upon realizing them. Some of the smartest people I’ve met go on to work at the MIC or finance, and they know what they’re doing; they just see it as the best option for themselves and have no spine. She is genuinely antisocial and belongs to a different class of people than regular humans, her fascist tendencies make sense in that context. Her path to power is through Homelander. I agree that the whole “all according to plan” is really boring and a bad trope, though. They could’ve done without that part.
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I wish they would have given her a different superpower rather than “being super smarts.” A much better way of showing how socially isolated she is could be by giving her the power of never being tired or never needing to/being able to sleep. She becomes exactly the schemer that homelander wants while also not projecting a very narrow interpretation of what human intelligence is. I’m guessing they were making a comment on how even if you had the smartest people in the world that capitalism wouldn’t allow a Black woman to improve society, but like, really? It just breaks my suspension of disbelief when she says “lol I solved cancer in 3 days while I was a kid.” I get it is a superhero show, but at least the powers were entertaining and easy to understand and the writers could play with them in unique ways.
I feel like the show right now isn’t criticizing/making fun of America but just how MAGA people see America. If I wanted that I would watch Last Week with John Oliver and chuckle at all his sex quips and not writers thinking that SA every episode to a twink is funny. I think season 5 is going to be more slop but I hope they ditch the electoral soapbox finger wagging and just regress back into the comics’ killmurder extravaganza because those were the parts of the show I wouldn’t skip through.