Just wanted to share a thread for those who don't regularly venture out of the bear site. Can't cross-post since it's defederated. It's small but has some numbers about community counts, active users, etc and links to more info from https://lemmyverse.net/. Thought it was notable that Hexbear shows up no matter how you sort it.
OP image is community count sorted by active users in the last month.
Edit: sorted by comments
yeah the accusations that we were born after 9/11 just do not hit, all reddit-styled forums (especially the fediverse) are skewed toward olds
Lol Jesus Christ, Reagan was president when I was born.
How the fuck do they sell that lie to themselves the entire discussion around isreal Palestine was basically "Jesus christ I haven't seen liberals this bloodthirsty to kill innocent brown people since 2001"
Were also the only people that seem to rember that reoublican presidents were fascists before 2016.
CTH is famously an elder millennial fanbase too. Average Chapo fan age is certainly higher than the average Reddit user age
I didn't post on r/CTH but my political journey / "radicalisation" was based on joining the workforce in the aftermath of the 2008 crash and then losing my safety net just before covid and the employment hellscape that came after.
I've been through enough to know a decent amount of luck and privilege was the only thing keeping me off the streets, and I get a similar vibe from a LOT of the posters here. The idea this place is full of teenagers is absurd.
I think most r/CTH users originally came from Twitter and they made a reddit account specifically for that subreddit. The culture of the subreddit was so different than the rest of reddit and it was evident this was older Something Awful types or enlightened 4chaners who had seen the error of their ways. There was blatant contempt for the "Reddiquette" and frequent brigades, and in general just contempt for all of the rest of Reddit.
That's why they quickly became the new SJW, the new SRS of the site. The gamers and gooners and nu atheists and software engineers and funkopop collectors and the_donald users and the r/politics users all were able to unite against a common scapegoat, and the feeling was mutual. There was always the feeling a ban was inevitable, and the mods of the subreddit had to keep being recycled being they were being pressured hard by the admins to delete tons of stuff, and they didn't want to and kept getting ousted. Then the next group would come in and pretend to for a bit then stop lmao.
I remember the thread where we just posted Bush-era image macros. It's just the continuation of Something Awful - Twitter - here.
I think the average HB user could speak conversational 1337sp34k if asked by historians trying to restore that dead language.
"Finally, someone that can finally translate this ancient document!"
It's just the ASCII art header for a gamefaqs guide from 1998.
"...and this, what does this mean? Our best scholars are unable to decipher it. Is it a code? a hieroglyph? Or a heretofore unknown related language? We have deciphered the text below as referring to "soi", is it about a bountiful harvest? A precursor to the Soy "Jack"?"
"Hmm. Yes, I believe this is what the people at the time refer to as a "Roflcopter". The caption "my roflcopter goes soi soi soi" does not refer to the soy plant nor the soyjack, but an onomatopoeia of a helicopter, a now defunct method of air travel with an abnormally high fatality rate"
They say that because we post like zoomers and gen-a (not really we just aren't baffled by their memes).
I’m a zoomer though what abt me :,’,(
BEGONE CHILD! Let the old gays, trans-femmes and occasional cis white guys post in peace!
Sidenote; Also zoomers are literally starting to graduate college rn, so still young but not like, 14 year old teenager young, the real big thing is that we, unlike .world or .trek, are not, for the most part, tech people. And if we are, we are usually tech-pessimists. Creates a huge posting culture difference.
In the vein of "only a Chinese or Russian person could be disagreeing with me right now about China or Russia" comes the new "only one of those dang kids today could be disagreeing with me right now about how kids today suck."
My favorite thing is them believing that everyone from Russia or China must have hated it there, and while there are some expats that are like that, most of the ones I've met (outside of Indians) really like or miss their country of origin. I'm not saying they are perfect (far from it) but they seem like no more totalitarian hellholes than the U.S.
Also you are talking to ex pats and emigrants who are predisposed to disliking their home country.
All the Chinese people who really like China stay there and don’t go on the English speaking internet to argue
TBH I know a number that sneak through the firewall to troll westerners, they're pretty cool. Some don't want to visit here tho cause the firewall blocks this domain. Maybe if someone reopens chapo chat and puts a Chinese interface on it we'd get a lot like that
I know some trans Chinese commies too
An infusion of Chinese shitposters would definitely be a nice boost to our posting powers
Importing Gojo-tier shitposters to change the very world of political shitposting
This would be pretty easy I think, seeing as we already have next.hexbear.net
Yea some people were trying to change the next domain to something like next.chapo.chat for the chinese users but it still needs some work