I found r/stupidpol and I was like “wow this place is absolutely horrible” and went looking around to see if there was any place online talking about how bad r/stupidpol was and I found a thread on here

I am the hex bear

Ran into a reading list hosted here linked to on commie Reddit, poster apologized for Hexbear link because "I hear they're a bunch of tankies", and, well, a bunch of tankies sounded like my kinda comrades, so I poked around the site a bit and signed up. Stuck around because it's a genuinely fun place.

I'm a ziq alt biding my time

R/chapotraphouse

From /r/breadtube out of all places lmao

Back in my teens I was a self professed tankie (I'm closer to an anarchocommunist nowadays but I still get called a tankie a lot by clueless libs), saw people on Reddit complaining that r/chapotraphouse was fulla tankies, got excited about finding a forum for people with similar political views, looked inside, it was mostly Bernie Sanders stans or whatever. Still, I hung around 'cos it was the least cringe part of Reddit. Saw those libs get radicalised in real time.

My account got nuked for some reason around the time the subreddit was.

Around the time the Chapochat launched I saw a Reddit post warning libs that the spectre of chapo still haunted the internet, so I went to have a look-see.

Bernie

for me it was word of mouth from my roommate forever ago

crapo brap blouse

been here since the subreddit, what a fun time that was

i like the culture we've curated here tho

I stumbled upon a mention of chapo.chat as a successor to r/chapotraphouse probably from a trans comrade on twitter, but I don't remember where I first found the mention.

From /chapotraphouse cuz it was the best forum on the internet and then it was banned. I made an account immediately but after a year or two forgot the password (and also not to offend anyone but this site wasn’t that great until the last few years 😬) but then came back and nothing is better, as in nothing on the internet is better than this site

Oldhead as well. Originally found cth when curiosity got the best of me and I checked if there was a proudboys sub, and there was, but it was satire and most of the posters also posted on cth, and that's how I found it

Listened to the chapo pod, found r/cth, was entertained and charmed by the post-hog discourse (and learned a lot about how many liberal I harbored), been along for the ride ever since

r/subredditdrama -> r/circlebroke2 and r/C@ -> r/cth

r/theredleft someone mentioned hexbear in a comment thread so i went to go check it out

I found out about Lemmygrad after r/GenZedong got quarantined, and then people there mentioned Hexbear. That was before federation mind you, so I mostly lurked and posted on Lemmygrad. Then with federation, the funny began.

I just moved the and there it was.

Another old who got banned along with the cth sub back in the day reporting in

I was looking for a pirate feed of a podcast and there was a reddit thread that linked to a post on Hexbear listing a bunch of them.

lol came from sh.itjust too! i'd run from reddit along with many others during the api exodus and read thru a few tear-filled threads on the bear and i needed to see what got everyone so twisted up.

Hopped on a trolley and came on down after Mr Chapo was banned

GOOORKAAAAAAA

I came via https://stalin6969696969420666.chapo.chat/

I've always been the caretaker

Came over after we got banned from for being too powerful and cool.