What is it? Doesn't matter, because everyone I see from the instance is an absolute edgelord. Fuck out of here with this positive engagement bullshit. Defeterate yourself already please.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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Now that the old Hexbear fork has been officially abandoned, this community will be used as a space for meta-discussion on the site itself.
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When chapotraphouse was banned on reddit many mods and users came together to create a space on a link aggregator platform.
Choosing lemmy the original admin and developer team decided to fork it for various reasons. About a year ago, sustained effort was taken to upstream many of the forked features so that we could rebase with current version lemmy and federate.
Over the years hexbear has become a non-sectarian social media space for sharing news, memes, links, posts and comments with each other as the mods endeavour to make the space welcoming to marginalized people.
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