My answer:

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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  • Ubermeisters
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Hexbear is the only independent western social media platform that has been the subject of multiple libertarian think-tank pieces and likely CIA operations, and nearly one appearance on Australian national television.