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I've been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I'm still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There's so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don't perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.

Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn't handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site's cultural memory as a result.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The year long path to migration back to lemmy started because I was annoyed that the page refreshed randomly on mobile view and it annoyed me enough to start poking around and get involved with the dev team.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I took an extended grasstouching break and came back recently. Idk if people who are on here daily notice how much better and more responsive the site is now. Wish I could still make emojis bigger with # though

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

This action resulted in a dramatic improvement to the enjoyability of my time fucking around online, and I am very appreciative. Thank you!!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

dprk-soldier without a doubt. Wish I saw it firsthand.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

yall know it had to be this badboy dprk-stare

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Too recent to be lore really, but LiberalSocialist the main character of Hexbear. Its what the unions wanted!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Power dynamics

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

The power imbalance!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

remember when we made the TERF with the "giggle" app very mad? she shouted us out on twitter and almost on live tv but not quite sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh holy shit, how did i forget about Sall?

that was our finest moment. that app is still down i think lmao

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To think there was such a long stretch where Eugene_V_Dabs' body of work was inaccesible to anyone who hadn't already saved it.

Edit: Oh also the time Big Money Salvia dropped by.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not really lore, but I miss the bedtime cat posting that gradually had a broader and more absurd definition of 'cat' over time.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

BMF and their various successors will always be my fav.

Edit: I think my second fav which idk if its even like a thing most people remember but I just remember it in particular.

There was some discussion about communal canteens replacing restaurants in a post-revolutionary society and I remember someone just went full socialism-with-vault-tec-characteristics and started ranting about how no one will have access to any personal kitchens at all, so that a proper and correct single solitary diet could be enforced upon the community.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

u/shitbird, dave, and shrekland

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Was SilverLegion recent or was that closer to when hexbear started?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i feel like it was super early

similarly (or even related idk), i feel like JOHN KERRYposting was like day 2 of this website lol

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Was the Zooptopia bunny post here or on r/cth?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

That one was on r/cth but I consider it spiritually part of Hexbear

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

She's still with us. Always has been.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the anti-homestuck moomins posting was funny

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

I wasn't really lore, but I found the thing we're everyone claimed we were based on Liberal mountain, Idaho thing funny

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

TC69 banning anti-trans users complaining about pronouns by using the downvoting records was so fucking funny.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The threateningly cheerful guy on the cover of that kitchen appliance cookbook. There's an emote of him in the mix but I forget what it is.

Also when we caused a massive spike in that one researcher's "violent rhetoric among political extremists" chart

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I do love that Hexbear has singlehandedly thrown off results for surveys about left wing violent rhetoric

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Slavers should be shot", and other controversial statements

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Based_Ball's arc

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really lore, but I always love seeing certain users who just have a certain type of post they're always busy at. DirtOwl with their owl pics, the one user who continually posted old swords, idk if its the same user but another long marathon of gun posts. Just really cozy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

u/Tervell does the sword and gun posts

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

@[email protected] is an unsung hero. I love his video posts even though they don't get much interaction.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’ll be neat when we reach the time that it’s been Hexbear longer than ChapoChat by like a factor of 10. We’re probably at what like 2 or 3

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

FEW drops & shitbird/shrekland amongst many many many other things

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That time Eric from Internet Comment Etiquette stopped by and said we looked nutty

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