“So, you mean they’re homophobic?”
“Well, no, but-”
“So they’re misogynistic? Racist? Transphobic? Ableist???”
“N-no, actually they enforce strict banning on all those things, BUT-”
“So they bully people into suicide?”
“Nooo, they require content warnings for even mentions of suicide, BUT!”
“…Yes?”
“I saw one of them say 'death to nazis!”
“So they’re the opposite of 4Chan?”
“NO!”
Hexbear captures a bit of the wonder of the early days of the internet for me. It’s something that was lost in time but has now returned in the year of our lord 2023. Hexbear has quickly become my favorite online community/forum. Its unique culture, including features like ‘struggle sessions’ about outdoor cats, makes it even more endearing. Additionally, the news megathread is greeeeat.
many people are saying this
Yeah, being on Hexbear/Chapo.chat the past few years with various accounts is the first time I’ve felt that internet community spark I had back when I was on forums with IRC channels.
I mentioned this on one of those “why did you pick your instance” threads right after federation, but it’s so true. The whole vibe here really does recapture some of the great parts of the late 90s early 2000s small independent BBS experience that was all but wiped out by Facebook and
. It’s got a kind of coziness and unique culture that I thought was gone from the Internet forever. It’s great.Yep. I think that makes it incredibly off-putting to people who aren’t expecting that, but that’s why I love this place.
Especially folks who are too young to have been a part of that Internet. It’s hard to believe, but this is like what being online was like 25 years ago.
Remember when you remembered people’s names and avatars and forum sigs and made connections with real people? The internet used to be like that! Some parts of it were very cool! We felt a sense of community for our little corners of the internet!
I appreciate hexbear bringing back that feeling.
Be honest, was this ChatGPT?
I only use chatgpt to correct grammar and punctuation
Like, news groups?
That and lots of early forums for me, definitely.
I read a few threads complaining about hexbear and was surprised to find myself agreeing with a lot of the hexbear users replies… so now I’m here too 😊
This is the chapo way. Even if everyone defederates from us, we’re still the
and we’ll get tons of growth just from libs talking about us in hushed whispersThey always try to demonize us but it doesn’t work. Its not like 4chan where you go there and you’re immediately horrified.
You come here and people are like “look at this cool mushroom” or one user that has been posting swords for 3 years straight and you’re like “ok these claims are greatly exaggerated”.
Welcome!omg I love that emote
Welcome to the site <3
Thank you! I’m liking it so far
You’re literally the second person that’s signed up today with twink in their username lol
Hey you know it’s a party when the twinks have arrived
twink to twink communicationWait, the boy kisser isn’t an actual emoji? You should post on !emoji@hexbear.net.
It is, it just got added yesterday
g-good kitty?
Same !!!
Welcome! It’s lovely to have you here.
welcome aboard, we love our trans comrades here 
Glad you found us!
One of us one of us
@Twink@hexbear.net and @nonbinarytwink@hexbear.net in one week? Truly, our cup overfloweth!
Welcome!
With what substance does the cup overfloweth with
The great tradition, I followed it myself back when reddit was hyperventilating over something called Chapo Trap House
Welcome
“Go back to chapotraphouse” they told me.
“What is a chapotraphouse?” I asked.
“You sound like one of those weirdos”
“Shit, looks like I am one!”
wow maybe i’ll move from lemm.ee to hexbear because that’s fuckin BASED
Come join the party!!!
One of us one of us
- Thank you and welcome!
Wel-fuckin-come
6Bear
> 4chanGoddamn whyesseff is getting nutty with these new emojis
Appreciate you!
oh hell yeah new garf emoji
omg my new transition goals just dropped
This is the first time I’ve heard of Hexbear. Can someone explain what it is?
we’re a socialist community with a largely casual/shitposting tone that descended from the banned /r/chapotraphouse subreddit. we’ve had our own site for about 3 years but just recently federated
We’re a DS9 fansite
This is the way.
A site dedicated to
I think I’m understanding now
We also love the greatest revolutionaries in trek, in particular
and 
:Union_man:
We need that as an emote.
I’ve been thinking of getting it as a tattoo
I was actually looking for an O’Brien emote the other day, could’ve sworn we had one
DAE realize the head of the teamsters is name Sean o’brien? Shit threw me for a loop for a minute.
we have that as an emoji built into the system
I’m here for it.I never knew I needed a Guy Fieri emote in my life but I do.
Happy to oblige my friend.
incredible work, thank you
We have
but he’s more like Guy Fieri at home
We’re a bunch of leftist dorks.
We also love Star Trek!
Andor Star Wars
Andor Genesis
Mostly because its a show about space commies.
chapotraphouse was a podcast, but we decided that we outgrew those nerds and renamed ourselves after a meme we latched on to for some reason. We do our best to be a safe space for leftists on the internet, as well as an LGBTQ ally space and a vegan friendly space.
We also cuss a lot and say exactly what we think about political corruption/ the violence inherent in the system. These are not incompatible with being fundamentally empathetic-they stem from that very same empathy!
If you ban transphobes and racists on sight, you’re just like 4chan. That’s why we should be like the enlightened lib instances and let them be.
hey dirt since this is a CW post can you nsfw tag it? thanks bae
Sure thing
Done.
bearchan
Bärchen
he’s sitting there.
The only good nazi is in the
, same goes for transphobes, but I repeat myself. 
I take the reformist view that they’re good from the moment they start playing the piano
Rehabilitation is when you start playing the piano, and the longer you play the more rehabilitated you are.
That story is apparently fake, and the picture that goes along with it is just of some Red Army soldiers playing a piano they found.
deleted by creator
And possibly John Rabe.
This is just a site to make posts about piss
Pissing, shidding and farding myself to communism
Convincing the conservatives that we’re the more civilized option, one barf at a time.
…booger
Yeah, I changed my mind on liberty. Your desires need to be suppressed.
If I cant piss and shidd and fart its not my revolution
hexbear tankies are all shills for the Piss Wizard
No coincidence you’re all posting on gender neutral bathroom time
Federation rules. I love our posters not giving an inch to libs
They better keep it that way
If this is the 4chan of the left then where is my zip file entitled “Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks” but is just gigabytes of dolphin porn?
You mean Savage Species? I guess character options that overpowered are LIKE porn…
I tried to reason with that user and was met this morning with a post that convinced me I shouldn’t have tried to reason with that user.
Disappointing, isn’t it?
Lmao
