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  1. Any drama must be posted as an observer, you cannot post drama that you are involved with.
  2. When posting screenshots of drama, you must obscure the identity of all the participants.
  3. The poster must have a credible post and comment history before submitting a piece of history. This is to avoid sock-puppetry and witch hunts.

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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse

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Auction: https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure

Update: post from hexbear admin on chapo.chat: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Thanks! Unlike a lot of Lemmy users, I have a soft spot for hexbears. I think they had a genuinely traumatic experience when they federated and their very personal instance was inundated with people who didn't think and talk as they did. I'm glad they're ok.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

they had a genuinely traumatic experience

Jesus Christ, this is so ridiculous. They federated on their own accord, and from what I've seen very little non-hexbear users ever came to post on hexbear communitites. Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you isn't fucking traumatic, in fact these people adore arguing and "dunking" on "libs".

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago

Dunking on other instances was literally the entire reason they federated in the first place. Their users were salivating at what they would do to lemmy.ca before we defed'd.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

They love to paint themselves as victims.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their users wanted to defederate right away when they saw the rest of Lemmy. The people in charge (able to pull the switch) kept telling them to hold on and it'd get better. A small number of people made the decision for all of them. It's all the rest for whom I genuinely feel bad. Their community was highjacked and, I think to them, attacked. I can have empathy for the average users.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Having seen how Hexbear interacted with other instances, I have zero empathy for them. They were an incredibly nasty group of people towards anyone who thought differently to them.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I saw a lot of people traumatized by their posting, but it is the first time I hear about the opposite.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hexbear is the only place online I've found that I feel most comfortable speaking my mind as a neurodivergent queer communist. People act like hexbear is some harsh authoritarian zone, it just simply doesn't condone chauvinism, transphobia, or let people post western propaganda without it being questioned. Some people react poorly to the way they are responded to on hexbear when they post some bullshit that we've heard and debunked 1000 times already.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

They also made a habit of "raiding" other instances, and outright flooding any conversation they didn't agree with with the most vile takes they could come up with, or, failing that, the pig shit Gif.

But yeah, they're secretly caring people, sure.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

Their community reminds me of that one Something Awful subforum with the same style. I guess hexbear is just a younger demographic

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Homie, they inundated everywhere else with their bile, very few people actually came to their instance.

They were the traumatic experience.