there’s a lot of random funny hexbear lore out there, like rock stacking, but that’s not what I’m asking about. I’m more asking about the really huge stuff, like the transphobe purging or the r/vcj onboarding that apparently almost ended the site. has anyone done any good writeups on those? really hoping for one about the r/vcj onboarding but I’ll take any i can get my hands on

  • NewAcctWhoDis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I definitely couldn’t do a neutral write up but I can drop a few points that I think are often overlooked. I’ve been on hexbear since before the vegan comm existed (on other accounts) so while I haven’t always been the most active, I’ve seen the whole history.

    One key point is that hexbear vegans weren’t content before VCJ joined. We already had the sense that hexbear was anti-vegan but we were quieter about it. Example (EDIT: fixed link).

    There was already a strong cultural overlap between c/vegan and r/vegancirclejerk before the lifeboating. For example, dog diet crossed over here, and was to my memory the precursor to the VCJ hostilities. (c/dogdiet comm request, negative reaction to dogdiet posting).

    But I just noticed who I’m replying to so idk why I’m even bothering.