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hang on guys, I just stumbled in from the bear site. so is this like the equivalent of the hexbear megathread? I’m still really confused about how this federation stuff works
pretty much, except it’s always in the same community
oh sick, you guys can put the hammer and sickle in your username. nice
it’s a unicode character so you can put ☭ in your username on any site
No, there were issues
have you tried again since the updates? maybe it works now that we’re merged with lemmy
Probably? I dunno what the bear thread is but this is a weekly post where you can comment whatever
We have a daily megathread that people volunteer to do a short writeup of one topic or another and is placed in whatever comm is appropriate. Then the site uses it as basically a local twitter.
:0 what an interesting custom. I guess this thread isn’t like that then
The comment section of the thread is almost exactly the same except for the the daily vs. weekly aspect. At hexbear there’s a mini essay or something like that as the post body each day but it’s usually not what gets talked about much. People being able to just make a comment about whatever or chatting about what they feel like is the same both places.
I checked out the August 7th thread and yeah you’re right. I wonder how they decide on who gets posting duty for the day
these days thelastaxolotl pretty much does all of them by default but anyone can reserve a particular date. there’s a link in each megathread to the megathread planning thread
I gotcha. RIP to Chicago furries though