Gotcha, just read it. Thanks for the explanation. Suck that there are some decent-ish "normal" communities there, but it's not like there's a shortage of alternate options, so I guess it all sort of pans out in the end. Cheers.

Weird. All of my interactions with hexbear have been in novelty communities like !music, so I hadn't seen any of that. I'm aware of the lemmy.ml - tankie connection, just hadn't heard that about hexbear. Interesting.