On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image 
, a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.
I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.
I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds
Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?
- 🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5554224
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5485455
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5550316
- 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5612470
- 🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5552737
- ☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5615086
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
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Theory:
The Black Panthers were based out of Oakland and it looks like there is a BPP museum there!
Just did some quick internet searching and apparently there’s a leftist/Marxist bookstore called Bolerium Books in SF, it’s by appointment only which sounds pretty cool. Here’s an article about it
There is also Bound Together books but thats an anarchist bookshop.
Other nice things to do (YMMV, I havent spent time down there in a long time):
go to the BiRite market in the Mission and buy a sandwich and fancy beer or soda and chill on the hill at Dolores Park to read or people watch
Hippie Hill at the top of Haight Street. Cool to stroll through, there will probably be some funny drum circles, and its within Golden Gate Park so I think it’s walking distance from the Conservatory of Flowers and the Academy of Sciences
You MUST get a burrito, Pancho Villa’s on 16th was one I remember being really good.
Ah you rock!! Thank you! I didn’t even think about how close it is to Oakland. Awesome suggestions