Just wanted to share a thread for those who don't regularly venture out of the bear site. Can't cross-post since it's defederated. It's small but has some numbers about community counts, active users, etc and links to more info from https://lemmyverse.net/. Thought it was notable that Hexbear shows up no matter how you sort it.
OP image is community count sorted by active users in the last month.
Edit: sorted by comments
They're here because they couldn't handle reddit anymore. We're here because reddit couldn't handle us anymore.
mfw thousands of internet strangers across multiple platforms spend their days complaining about me and 200 other gay communists
Half the thread is "I have never interacted with Hexbear but they are literally the worst instance and I'm so surprised they exist"
The funniest part of that is all the people who think we're a bunch of uneducated kids who base our opinions on nothing, while fully admitting they have never interacted with us at all. Yes I see. Tell me more about making opinions on something you know nothing about 
Damn I’m shocked how small hexbear is, if I’d had to guess I woulda thought you guys were like 30% of the fediverse. How does 98% of the shitposting and best reaction gifs come from 2% of the user base? Touch grass sometimes, damn lmao
People be big mad about the beanis instance
Julian Assange is a bootlicker and Kremlin stooge who sold us out to the American and Russian billionaires. The Mueller Report proved he was explicitly trying to get Treason Trump elected and working with Putin to push disinformation to that end.
Now who’s bringing up politics everywhere? Guess it’s ok when it’s MSNBC slop
A spectre 
is haunting lemmy — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Reddit have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre
It's hard to beat an operation with state funding.
Tell me you got a 
without actually telling me you got a , lib.
Making up shit out of whole cloth lol
To remember 9/11 you have to be at least in your late 20s or early 30s. Tells you something about these nerds that they think so badly of literally all young people.
I remember 9/11 very well, and anyone who lived in the last 25 years knows what it is like to live in the post-9/11 hysteria.
Moving to a different country actually reaffirmed my leftist positions. Turns out the more of society you see, the more left you are on average. It decimates all illusions. This is commonly known anyway, and represented in every electoral map for fucking ever
It’s ironic to accuse leftists of being unaware of other countries. When I was (more of) a lib I never learned that much about other countries. Now I’m reading a lot more books and watching a lot more non-English content from other points of view.
Another person comparing traa a nazi bar:
This reads like someone telling me that the nazi bar is the only place to go because the nazi bar has people there all the time and the other bars are mostly empty.
Might as well just admit they've never been and have nothing to add to the conversation.
https://lemmy.world/comment/11744317
Hexbear (if you disagree with their politics) is basically like a white american from the deep south. They’re perfectly reasonable to talk to as long as it isn’t politics
I've tried a bunch of fediverse Lemmy clones. My favorite was kbin.social from June 23. It got progressively worse as the socialist gays were defederated... Now it's hexbear and beehaw. It's funny how when you encourage people that believe in respect for one another to interact you get nice vibrant communities. It was also funny seeing the defederation of hexbear from the other side. How immediately after the quality of the community dropped significantly
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