I read the about. I still have no idea what this community is for. But it’s popping up in my feed a lot so figured it couldn’t hurt to ask.
We used to post on the chapotraphouse subreddit on
but they banned the subreddit after we posted too many John Brown posts, so we started hexbear about 3 years ago. They banned it the same day they banned The_Donald. Probably didn’t want to appear biased. We’re a left unity group, which means we try to be welcoming to a lot of different types of socialists and communists and avoid infighting. We also have a lot of trans and gay users and accordingly are very pro trans rights.@Hobbes@startrek.website this is the actual answer fyi
They banned it the same day they banned The_Donald. Probably didn’t want to appear biased
Something commonly left out is that the donald sub was already inactive at this point, its users already fled to some other shithole in anticipation of being ban. The chapo sub was definitely explicitly targeted for being leftist.
It was the ultimate both-sides. I didn’t even realize there was a chapo sub until I learned of it’s closure. Def missed out.
We are also VERY into Star Trek fyi
A bunch of terminally online commies and anarchists who shitpost too much. If you’re not afraid to learn about leftism, pull up a chair while I show you pictures of my hamster. He is a very nice boy, his name is Biggs
little man :)
He is almost a perfect ball
He is a perfect ball. All future balls must be judged in relation to Comrade Biggs.
Secret untagged Biggs pic
i didn’t tag it because i’m 85% sure i posted it before
Entirely possible, I have the memory of a walnut
General purpose. It’s one of the most active comms here
Welcome, please enjoy our star trek emojis:
And our Star Trek themed users.
I’m not really a Star Trek themed user, but I do have a Star Trek avatar
I’m new here and had never seen most of these before and 🤩 wowee wow wow, that’s some good stuff, especially Hunter S. Picard and Quarx. Where can I find the whole trove and learn how to post them?
Where can I find the whole trove
The emojinomicon and the entirety of its contents does not make itself known to any Hexbear. It is a process of submitting yourself to the Hexbear and, as a result, discovering the words of power to call forth thine chosen warrior.
and learn how to post them?
Just hover your mouse over them to see their :emojiname: - but use the emoji button in the formatting toolbar to open the picker which allows you to search for keywords like ‘trek’ or ‘picard’ (whereas typing : will only show you ones that match exactly what you enter)
I’m mostly using Lemmy via Connect, but I’m saving this so I can reference it when I’m on my computer. Thank you very much!
The emoji comm has a pinned post with all of them (as of yesterday/until more get added).
Awesome!! Thank you!
Edit - omg, I just went there and saw the absolute dazzling array and comprehended the mountain of effort that went into making that post and recognized the username! YOU DID THAT!!?!
Holy shit. THANK YOU. We’re incredibly lucky to have you, what a badass.
@Parsani Did a lot of it too, and is the one who had the idea of pinning and locking it.
It is quite pretty to look at, I had to do it twice because the original attempt had all of them in the same post. It was beautiful, but unfortunately too good for this world (maximum post length).
thank you for the kind words
Rom, not quark, he had a beautiful communism arc
That makes a lot more sense, thank you!
Look out Quark! Rom is coming for your latinum with his comically large spoon!
Hi, welcome! We’re glad to have you on our hexagonal bear site!
When you open the reply box click on the emoji smiley face and scroll down past all the normal emojis. Every hexbear emoji is there towards the bottom.
Removed by mod
For clarity - It was a running joke on the old subreddit that the Chapo Trap House podcast hated us, and we hated them and were actually a Citations Needed
fan club. This is half true - Citations Needed is good shit.
Citations Needed admirers and enthusiasts club.
Ots a community about being gay with your dad
And the Citations Needed podcast
We just want to do star trek utopia irl.
A leftist social platform centered around community building through discussion, shitposting memes, and sharing content.
Our default “main” comm was shuttered I want to say a year in, in an attempt to get people to post to the many smaller and inactive comms. Instead of that happening, this became the new default comm.
Why not? Nobody actually listens to the podcast so it would be dead here otherwise.
I’ll have you know I listen to every episode of citations needed.
Wow. What a response! I am also a hard leftie and like star trek. Glad I asked.
welcome, friend!
It’s where things that don’t fit elsewhere go, also shitposting
It’s a community for classical liberals. We support free markets, open exchange of ideas and oppose big government. You are welcome to contribute anything you want to the discussion.
Do you happen to be gay? Cuz we all really miss @gayhobbes@hexbear.net, maybe you can fill his place.
You’ll have to fake an appalachian accent when posting
this is a thigh highs instance
