I've been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I'm still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There's so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don't perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.

Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn't handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site's cultural memory as a result.

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[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think the clear winner for me is the time someone made a post with the hot take that hating on pumpkin spice lattes was sexist and that was like the activation phrase for this one guy (who had been around for months!) to go completely mask off and post a bunch of reactionary shit, and then make multiple accounts named after various Hanna Barbera properties to be a wrecker for months afterwards, in the process proving the original take 100% correct.

Edit: Some of the comments are actually still up for some reason. Here's one. (cw: death threat) Or how about:

Looks good, better than drinking whore coffee.

BUT I LOVE WHORE COFFEE!

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Oh damn I forgot about that one