this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 97 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Best thing to ever happen to us. It feels so nice being able to say that billionaires should get the gui-better without getting banned immediately for being "uncivil".

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Honestly yeah, we were on borrowed time being on reddit anyway, chapo was only tolerated for so long. Not to mention the mods of the old sub were weird nerds that would ban people for disagreeing with them or downvoting their dumb bits. Hexbear is waaay healthier and actually feels like a community.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to mention the mods of the old sub were weird nerds that would ban people for disagreeing with them or downvoting their dumb bits

aware

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh-shit not you, you've always been cool

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm the one that invented the main rule. I'm like one of the most arbitrary people around that fell upwards the ladder of nerddom

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lmao and also I will NEVER comment main, I will always sincere post on a main post.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

My greatest weakness! Someone putting so much effort into their post that it actually makes me feel bad to remove it for a bit

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

ban people for disagreeing with them

This phrase is my personal pet peeve. The mods then weren't great but they didn't ban people because they hated disagreements as a concept, they wouldn't ban you if you disagreed with them on your favorite pizza toppings or about the best Star Wars trilogy.

They banned people for the substance of their opinions just like the hexbear mods do. Hexbear mods will ban zionists not because they can't stand anyone who disagrees with them, but because they can't stand zionists. Let's not pretend like hexbear welcomes opinions from the entire political spectrum. We just differ from the r/cth mods in what exact opinions we deem banworthy.

Edit: To be clear I do not think this is a bad thing. I support the mods banning people with terrible opinions.

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[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

Oldheads so jaded about rebr0 they forget about hayaca smdh my dick head

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm glad y'all eventually joined the federation experiment - Lemmy would be almost entirely libs without the hexbears. Grad and .ml would be overwhelmed.

[–] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 71 points 1 day ago

I legit had liberals on a “politically neutral” Discord server telling me to “go back to Chapo” in 2023. It’s clear it has left an imprint on their online psyche

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago

Death to slave owners.

Death to slave traders.

Death to blood thirsty fascist

Death to their enablers

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 87 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's wild that they still allow /r/trueanon and /r/shitliberalssay. Both have the same tone of posting and most of the same posters. Chapotraphouse hit a unique nerve with reddit.

And death to slave masters.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

r/shitliberalssay was pretty mild back then compared to chapo or moretankiechapo.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

I don't think I was subscribed at the same time I was r/chapotraphouse in like 2015, but by maybe 2019 the comment section was a real proto-/c/slop. They have that same kind of metamodernist dada culture where they're chaotic good feral dogs.

[–] somename@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

Chapo was a much larger sub, and getting bigger all the time. It was big enough that it was the spectre haunting Reddit, so with that came enough infamy for the admins to ban it.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 65 points 1 day ago

"promoting hate" is apparently "I don't think slaveowners should be alive."

Similar story to today where "promoting hate" is "I don't think killing children is okay"

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 68 points 1 day ago

God, was it only five years ago. I feel like I've been here foreverchomsky-yes-honey

[–] SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's ok they banned the already-empty /r/the_donald as consolation

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

They may have lost the reddit battle but they won the war.

Twice!

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also the first time I felt old was when we moved to the discord chat, the main chat was moving so fast I couldn't even read it. Then we had to make the slow chat lol

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The discord was a nightmare for my boomer ass brain

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think they literally named the slow one the boomer chat lol

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

yup, i still hate discord

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

being a boomer is when you don't want to stare at a ceaseless stream of largely incoherent incomplete sentences and random emojis

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[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They genuinely thought kill slave owners meant, we will kill you for you 401k.

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

No they didn't. They just needed some little thing to get upset about to justify purging us. We were getting too popular and the great NATOification of all social media had to be complete.

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[–] PurrLure@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

You know that one guy from way back, uuuuuh I think his name was ah John Brown?

Yeah so it turns out he didn't do anything wrong. JB-shining-aggro

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember being part of a chapo discord that sucked tbh. Luckily someone posted about chapo.chat as an alternative to the sub. I was never super active in the sub. I didn't even listen to the pod until about a year before covid. I'm glad I found this site.

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[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honestly, probably the best thing to happen to us. Look at us.

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Good for us, bad for all the regular people who were getting exposed to far left ideas on their r/all feed.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

been here since the ban (on different accounts) kill all slave owners

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago

i got banned from reddit 3 months ago? for writing "luigi" and nothing more on a PGE rate increase post in my local sub

[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

And from its ashes, the greatest website was born hexbear-gay-pride hexbear-chapochat

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

Happy Independence Day!

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alt title: history started 5 years ago on this day

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope it was last year, as was covid and the first Trump/Clinton election

sorry to burst your bubble but half a decade has not passed without me realizing it

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

President of Nothing Ever Happens gang

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Okay, now that the dust has settled, what the fuck was that subreddit's name about?

[–] PalestinianDream@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What do you mean podcast?

they-were-comrades

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[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Very thankful I saw a chapo.chat link on a different subreddit within a week of the ban and got to lurk here for a few years. I definitely would not have found this place since I'm always online but in a different way than a lot of you guys.

Anyway, happy anniversary.

congratulations

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

On the dawn of June 30th, r/Chapotraphouse arose to the thunder-burst of “Check out this dope ass bear!” What is the Hexbear, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?

"“The proletarians of reddit,” said the Central Committee in its manifesto.“ amidst the failures and treasons of the ruling classes, have understood that the hour has struck for them to save the situation by taking into their own hands the direction of posting.... They have understood that it is their imperious duty, and their absolute right, to render themselves masters of their own destinies, by seizing upon the reddit power.”"

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