I didn't come to hexbear, I went to chapo.chat and they switcherooed it for a hexbear right out from under me.

Every other political philosophy is dogshit dogwater bullshit. Communism will win. Free Palestine.

And somebody has to be the funniest person here. I don't know what you'd do without me.

What brought me here:

Arguing with NAFO soying over the Ghost of Kiev on Reddit eventually took a toll on me. I eventually found more like minded people.

What made me stay:

Those like minded people haven't gone away.

I showed up when reddit banned 3rd party apps. Initially joined .world cuz large means good. Heard about the specter of hexbear and checked it out and found out its a pretty based place.

Now I'm just kinda here vibing, usually only commenting on stuff pertaining to my preferred treats but otherwise lurking the good community that exists here

Being able to freely complain about England and my style of humour

I lurked on the subreddit, I lurked on the discord lifeboat (and left it as soon as the site went up) and then started posting occasionally. went through a few accounts with a dozen or so comments on each and then stuck with this one just in time for the Ukraine War to start

my upbringing in relative poverty primed me to accept genuinely left-wing ideas but remained in the liberal bubble until Corbyn and the movement that brought him to power came around and exposed me to the concept that ideas left of Obama existed. I was still kind of in that I'm-a-very-smart-and-respectable-and-civil-politics-understander zone but all it would take is a push, and that push came from the subreddit. I didn't really have any background or knowledge of anarchism nor possessed any particular drive to distrust authority as a general concept so I slid pretty easily into Marxism-Leninism (though I do definitely like and respect anarchists and don't really have any reason or background to be sectarian against them, so this website's non-sectarianism fit me quite well).

I think the biggest part that attracted me was that people actually gave a shit about politics, there was actual passionate energy there, after years of lukewarm boring shit about how we just need to gradually introduce ranked-choice voting and shift taxes around and we'd create the perfect society. The only people I'd heard yelling about politics before was people yelling in support of reactionary policies, or sort of just yelling into the void about how they wished things could be better but offering no solution, but hearing people yell in support of policies that would help people was this big moment where my latent frustrations felt validated. Hearing somebody say something like "LET'S JUST GIVE HOMELESS PEOPLE HOUSES!" instead of liberals going "Hm, well, first we need to introduce a means-tested system of soup kitchens that utilize tax breaks to attract social workers..." was just one of those moments where you realize that problems can actually have (relatively) simple solutions and not everything has to be this stupid fucking 53-stage system which inevitably fails at stage 11 when a new president takes over and the parliamentarian says that there isn't enough money or whatever.

also, I hate to say that the chapo podcast was a big part of my left-wing turn as much as the subreddit was, but it kinda was, so I'll always have a spot in my heart for Felix and Matt even though I've outgrown them politically and don't listen to it anymore. It did kinda Americanize me but I made up for it by becoming the Ultimate Geopolitics Understander Who Knows Something About Most Countries later on once the Ukraine War started.

waht the fuck is a chapo

I was in my open-source arc and I found lemmy, joined lemmy.world because "default instance" and then they did their whole preemptive defederation thingy. they basically said "this is a tight knit online community of communists who hate NATO" and I was like, "hell yea." I stayed because you all challenged my worldview and taught me new things about the world I didn't know before.

I heard all of the libs were congregating so I decided to check it out.

I fucking hated the discord that got formed after /r/chapotraphouse got banned.

Partially because Discord sucks ( ) but also there was some inscrutable drama constantly happening and I just didn't have the time or patience to even try to figure out up from down, and then saw a mention that they built a discussion site so gave it a try.

I don't know why I'm still here, this last couple of days of drama at a site I look at daily has me wondering why the fuck I do anything at all. So fucking stupid to put any energy or emotions into a fucking website, and let it become this important to me

r/CTH brought me.

I stay because:

1. I steal takes here and reuse them elsewhere. It's useful.

2. I really really enjoy drama.

3. Some of the funniest people on the internet are here.

Love posting

Hate capitalism

Simple as

Used to post on the old sub. Came over here after the ban. Stayed because this place keeps me sane.

I came because I was done with Reddit. I stayed because it's fun to feed the owls.

🫱🏻 🫘 🦉

What brought me here: looking for a leftist, queer-friendly alternative to Reddit.

I first left Reddit due to the API controversy, came back a bit later after I first left, and while using it, I just started feeling even more sour about the other aspects of the site as well. Even Reddit spaces that were supposed to be "good" had a lot of bad in them. For instance, mainstream trans subreddits had heavily-upvoted enbyphobia and transmedicalism slide by on multiple occasions.

I then began seeking out Reddit alternatives, and Lemmy was at the forefront of them. In trying to figure out what instance I wanted to belong to, I used Blåhaj Zone at first, but I wasn't digging the vibe tbh. I then looked back at join-lemmy.org and sorted by LGBTQ+ instances once again, and Hexbear caught my attention because of its explicit admission of being a leftist space.

What makes me stay:

• Leftist/Queer/ND/etc. solidarity: I'm far more understood here than other spaces
• Organizing and theory resources: Hexbear has been useful for providing resources about organizing, good theory to read, and other forms of media like videos and leftist music.
• Making the place less mayo: I want to be a prominent empoc user on Hexbear so that I can sniff out colonial bullshit that the vast sea of cracKKKers on this site might miss. Also, I don't want any other empoc who come along, are already here, or have been here way before me to feel like they're alone in not being a honKKKy on Hexbear.
• To share my interests: Prog metal, vegan cooking, goofy memes, you name it.
• Mutual aid: I can't stress enough how much this site has helped me survive and have basic needs met during this very rough time of looking for stable employment as a black androgyne in Florida.

Back after Bernie 2016 collapsed I started trying to look at the reasons why the Democrats said one thing and seemed to do another (spoilers: it wasn't seeming) and I honed in on what the fuck was up with Trump and found that liberals were fundamentally incapable of articulating why Donald Trump had won. I kept a close eye on the news and believed the bullshit that the walls were closing in because, again, I was ignorant and found no voices that spoke truth.

Then I found a video of the Chapo Trap House guys perfectly stating why liberal humor trying to make fun of Trump was just not fucking funny. They were shitting on liberals and it took me some time to realize that they themselves were not liberals, they were socialists. Or something like socialists. I didn't really understand. Anyway, I listened to them for a long time and it got me interested in politics in a different way, and I kept tabs on the subreddit to see what sort of other perspectives were out there. Kept doing that. Followed the Chapo twitters. Got to know them a bit. Tried to wrap my head around their perspectives and found all the other people they retweeted and who dwelled in their comments, even after the subreddit was killed. Then I found some jerkoff mention chapo.chat in a gloating "they're so unhinged they got banned from reddit" sort of comment which immediately made me think you guys were too cool for reddit so I followed you here.

And continued to lurk for a long time because I was insecure and dealing with a lot of personal issues and just scared of joining yet another online community and making such a gigantic ass of myself I get ostracized or banned. After this place transitioned to Hexbear I finally found the courage to join in and start leaving comments, and eventually start making posts.

The reason I stay here is because it's the only place, the only fucking place on the Internet where discussion of politics does not make me feel like an insane man surrounded by children struggling to pronounce the word "politics" as they cast their team sports mentality on it and don't even think to question things and wonder why the fuck everything sucks so much beyond "it's the brown people's fault." It's a vibrant community of wonderful people with moderators who take absolutely no bullshit and have created -- according to the trans folks here -- one of the most, if not the most trans-accepting and -supporting community online. Every day I come here I find comments that make he laugh or think or just feel like I'm not completely fucking insane when I'm thinking about the fucked state of things.

Coming to this community has given me support and the semblance of a social life when I didn't really have any, and kept me afloat in times of despair. At the very least no matter how shitty things are I can come and laugh at the pissing owl website. It's wonderful. I love you people.

I would see my friend on bear site and she had a bunch of spicy memes. At the time I wasn't a commie but I was an anarchist so I was drawn to it regardless.

Come: I'm kind of an OG from r/chapotraphouse, I switch up usernames from time to time for opsec.

Stay: One of the few online spaces I feel like I can be myself. I can actually care about things without being called a loser for it. Even in times I disagree with someone the conversation will always stay civil. It's been my main social media site.

Inertia from hanging out on /r/cth all the time and... that same inertia

r/CTH got shuttered and I kept getting 3-day bans. I even got handed a 3-day ban immediately after I came off a 3-Day ban, both for interacting with "violent" content. So was completely unusable and all the Weird Facebook groups I was part of had really fallen off after 2019, so I was looking for an alternative and I can't even remember how I found out about this place, but I did and I'm here now.

I stay because this place is like a hybrid of the old forums I used to hang out in, the Weird Facebook groups I hung out in more recently, and r/CTH. I've even ditched all other social media (unless Discord counts) because this place fulfills all the same needs, and in a way I feel is healthier. Thanks, Comrades!

Regular of r/cth until :cool-zone: :jb-shining: :cool-zone: that bounced me here. Recurring enshittification of :reddit-logo: and The Website Formally Known As Twitter drove me here further.

I stay because I need somewhere to shitpost Baudrillard and Zizek theory into digestible memes.

i was a r/chapotraphouse user back in the day before the reddit ban. I briefly went on the discord but there were some users who were there saying some pretty spicy things that could have been so i left that and then joined chapo.chat when it started up.

mainly i like the mix of users and i appreciate the environment that isn't too self-serious, and i find that it's made me do a lot of reflection and learning over the years. i rotate usernames a lot, im just some anonymous shitposter that has not been a staple of the community but i've been here the entire time.

Whenever I see or hear a group of insufferable dorklings whisper in hushed tones about some shadowy group of deranged radicals, my instinct is to seek those people out.

Deprogram subreddit suggested this to me around the time a bunch of subreddits went silent in protest, so I followed here.

Stayed cause reddit just kept getting worse and the in-jokes here are great.

• What brought me here:

I was a regular lurker/commenter on r/CTH starting back during the first Sanders campaign, not too long before the sub was locked for a day at 69,420 subs. I jumped ship from the Discord as soon as the ChaCha site went up. What drew me in was finding a community of Extremely Online leftist weirdoes who were an excellent foil to all of the right-wing/pro-capitalist ideology with which I'd been inundated (and grown disillusioned) for most of my life.

• What made me stay:

The core of this site's community is like an oasis in a vast desert of internet edgelords and shitlibs. This is a place of solidarity and a place to shut up and learn just as much as it is a place to shitpost terrible lute puns. Come for the shit piss owls, stay for the READ FEINBERG .

I came to the old sub because, while Reddit was full of cynical liberals that believed in nothing, Chapo was a community that clearly had a way to explain what was going on and weren't afraid to call it how they saw it. At the time, I had a grasp of how US imperialism worked because of where I live, but I still had a lot of reactionary attitudes. I stayed around because even though everyone was very aggressive, the empathy behind everything made me feel like y'all could fix me. It's been a good time as of yet

It felt like I had finally found a place that wasn't going to demand I be civil towards Nazis. I wasn't going to be banned for saying "kill all slave owners." I also thought you guys were really funny.

Same,same. It's the only place on the internet where I can say "kill fascists" and I won't be immediately banned/shadow banned for saying that.

Got on CTH sub after most "leftist" subs I was on became property defenders/not all cops apologist during the George Floyd protests.

Stayed because I like the funny memes and have learned a lot from differing perspectives on hexbear.

Used to lurk on r/cth

Someone posted the Discord that sprung up afterwards on Facebook

Then the Discord mentioned Chapo.Chat and I think I jumped in like a couple of weeks after it started

Now I am here, like a proud oak, posting pee-pee and poo-poo

cth user ->chapo.chat lurker -> couple years of ignoring it -> wanted a sane space because of whatever garbage was going on in the world and remembered chapo.chat but it redirected to hexbear -> some alts

Came because of a dumb subreddit I liked when I was a teenager in my Bernie to Marxist transition.

Stayed for the community and comrades. Love yall

I was looking for a leftist site to learn about Marxism

All you lovely people have made me stay. 3 years now and idk what I'd do without yall.

Was on the chapo reddit way back and then came here.

I stick around cause it's a fun webzone that's got a cozy web 1.0 forum vibe where it's got it's own community and site culture that isn't regurgitation of the same slop across every website and I can be a commie without getting the same arguments I've heard for years in the replies.

When I saw how much .world libs hate it, I knew Hexbear was the instance for me. That, and it's a safe place for trans people

shitredditsays -> gamerghazi -> chapotraphouse -> this place

I mostly come here for the shitposts, and to hear normal opinions after big news events. I also like to hear about people's hobbies and stuff in an environment where I know most of the reactionaries have been purged, but there's not as much of that as I'd like.

I've been here since the offboarding from r/cth and when this was called chapo.chat. I was @Zodiark.

Probably just the occassional insight, leftist safe space, and good vibes all around. A general permissiveness and acceptance, even anonymized, to be who you wish to be. I did like to comment and post, but this space was a genuine thought refuge when 10/7 happened.

People said nice things to me and I desired more

The shitposting

I follow the trail of PPB, wherever it may lead.

I came here from the discord lifeboat after the banning of r/cth. It's corny but I'm kind of proud that this account is almost as old as the site (maybe off by a day or 2 idk).

I stay because of the positive culture, the good politics, and the vast library of obscure emojis.

I was adrift after r/cth got shut down, Reddit got more annoying, so I bailed. It was nice to be off that hell site, but I kinda missed knowing there were like minded people out there and some semblance of community... Which I don't engage much in tbh, but I'm trying to take more steps to do so. Fact is, we need each other more every day. And y'all help me to laugh so I don't get lost in despair...

But most of all, the free cookies.

I lurked on cth pretty frequently and followed after the ban.

It's comfy here, most of the time. People seem to like my jokes which is nice because I'm not exactly a social butterfly IRL. The trans positivity was pretty instrumental in me finding my identity, and although there were also negative experiences on here regarding that it was a net good. Also helped keep me sane while I was jobless for a year

Started listening to Chapo in 2019, found and was entertained by the subreddit, wound up on a lifeboat here. Excellent meme content, wonderful effort posts, and the only place on the web that respects trans people and doesn't bow down to pornography

I just kinda gravitated to the old sub in its final months because the people from there just seemed to be right about stuff and I wanted to see where they were coming from. I guess that's at the core of why I'm still here. Whether it's about politics or the kind of vibe you want, this place gets it and other places don't.

i could literally write all the same for my shared experience right down to wanting to go check out the "bad kids" lol

owl is wise

I found out about chapo.chat somehow a little while after the ban happened. I wasn't on r/cth much at all, but the idea of a new lefty lemmy instance sounded pretty cool. It just felt like my kinda place, and I've learned a lot here. I enjoy the full spectrum of shit posts to effort posts on offer. Comrades being comrades online, what's not to love?

Where else is there to go?

This site is a great mix of shitposting, news and general events analysis, and serious history and theory effortposting. If you’re a leftist, where else is there on the internet that’s like this?

Without this place at best my connection to the left at all would be like a Monthly Review subscription, a Jacobin subscription, slowly working my way through marxists.org, and maybe occasionally reading whatever new releases from Verso looked interesting.

I was on the old cth subreddit but didn't know about chapo.chat when the sub got removed. When reddit banned all the good apps to make their IPO look good, I started checking out various lemmys. I happened to be on blahaj when it was briefly federated with hexbear and made this account here after they defedded, preferring to be with the tankies.

What brought me:

The appeal of a fabled, ancient, mysterious, and weird leftist instance that is isolated from the rest of the fediverse because they are so old they are using a lemmy fork from before it had federation implemented, which then decided to finally federate.

What made me stay:

Genuinely awesome place. Inclusive and intolerant of any bigotry, with principled people, where everyone is nice to each other and supportive of those who are suffering. I normally don't write about myself as I struggle to put into words what I'm feeling or to even make out what exactly the things are I'm feeling, but once in a while I see a vent post that really resonates with me and seeing the responses to such posts not blaming the individual really help me.

The trans comms actually made me wonder about my own relation to gender.

Hexbear's blocking of .world (and other reddit-like lemmy istances) (I was on lemmy.ml, which federates with those instances, before the reddit flood), also seems to be doing good to me.

Sorry, my comment appears underwhelming to me. When I think of hexbear my head thinks of huge cauldron of soup made with a large and complex variety of ingredients all contributing to an otherworldly culinary experience, and I feel like I only managed to put into words a basic description of some carrots and pepper corns in that soup.

come for the empathy, stay for the cats beans

My political pipeline was Dem > DemSoc > Marxist-Leninist > something akin to Left Unity(currently closer to anarcho-socialism but I float)

I joke about it but I'm the meme where you go into college as a lib and leave as a socialist. But I also took a lot of econ, polysci, and history classes. They are a bit more gloves off in their history classes when they are behind a paywall.

I've been a redditor for like 13 pathetic years and gravitated towards /r/latestagecapitalism pretty early but I was still lib-brained and a reformist. Sometime during the Bernie era, I became a socialist but at that time I only heard bad things on reddit about all those tankies on /r/cth and /r/genzedong. And certainly a tankie I was not!

I kept reading theory and at some point, It sort of clicked and I was like, I'm a Marxist. It's me, the communist, etc. Basically I was radicalized at this point. Last year when reddit was killing 3rd party apps, I caught wind of Lemmy and went to look into it. I saw a bunch of horror stories about how bad the evil tankies were on Lemmygrad and Hexbear and sort of just went with Lemmygrad since it was federated with the wider server network. I hung out there for a few months, then y'all federated and I just sort of found myself on y'alls comms more and it felt more like home to me. I still love my 'grad comrades but the 50/50 split of shit posting and effort posting here jives better with my personality.

I stayed because I've never seen a more inviting place for marginalized people and leftists. I'm pretty serious about Left Unity and that include my brown, queer, trans, and fellow disabled comrades, and really everyone that just wants to see socialism realized. I hate seeing other "leftist" spaces close the door on people just because they don't fit their perfect mold.

What brought me here:

r/CTH refugee & I like that this community attempts to be hardline trans inclusive and shit.

What made me stay:

I didn't. Took a huge break after getting fatigued reading gleeful slur use and self congratulatory hornyposting.

And where did that bring me?

B- back to you.

i watched the 2020 primaries like a particularly bloody spectator sport on the sub, and then 4 years later i'm trapped here by my reliance on our iconic selection of emotes.

like who the fuck could ever possibly need so many weird, hyper-specific, and self referential emotes? me, apparently, since i find myself missing them when i'm on any other site/discord/whatever

2008 libertarian to 2012 socialist curious, started frequenting the Chapo sub in 2017 and came over here when it was banned.

I’ve stayed because y'all are way funnier than anyone on Reddit and your hearts are always in the right place… seriously, there’s like a utopian level of kindness here. Oh and no ads!!!

Plus someone here introduced me to Black Dresses so I consider you taste makers as well.

I was posting on chapo as a teen while I was somewhat of a lib but had read a decent amount of theory. Tried chapo.chat back in the day, but it just wasn't active enough for my tastes at the time. Ended up staying on Reddit for a while after the ban, fully internalized the theory after a few years without realizing it. Left Reddit during the whole third party app debacle and ended up on Blahaj zone. When I saw the Hexbear comments on there, I knew I had to come over now because it felt like the libs over there just became completely unhinged after Ukraine.

I have always lived on Liberal Mountain and met hexbears there.

I stay because it is entertaining, informative, and has a good smattering of people that know theory and/or irl practice. And because it's vehemently pro-trans, anti-white supremacist, and so on, although of course there is room for improvement.

If memory serves, I was looking for front-ends for . Accidentally found Hexbear and made this account a couple of months later.

Don't really see a reason to leave, especially considering that I have almost no social life outside of here.

I'm gonna go with extremely proximal responses to this.

What brought me here: A casual thought, 3 months after the fact, of "they had a lifeboat Discord they were talking about, I should check that out".

Why I've stayed: Because I wasn't banned, I guess.

it was the best successor to the subreddit (and still is)

I enjoy shitposting

I was here since the beginning but this is not my original account. What made HB unique to me is it was that time where this is the only place that had a concretly reasonable and different view about China and other AES countries. There were some other places like Genzedong(only a lurker there) but it was banned and it since died.

I've seen a lot of struggle sessions about that, first it was China, I particularly remember some random person willing to die on a hill that China's handling of terrorism in Xinjiang was just like the state police apparatus resembling post 9/11 America.

But 2022 was realy funny, the epic struggle session over why would Putin suddenly do this to smol bean innocent Ukraine. Again this was the only place I knew which we were even discussing about having a different opinion from the western consensus.

I think the way which we handled the Gaza genocide, again one of the few places that isn't scared of the MSM narrative or afraid to fight Zionism.

I think when it comes to the real world issues we mostly eventualy found the correct majority opinion on things that matter. If at any point I felt these positions would've been different from mine I would've probably left already.

When it comes to China I think the near constant unironic Xi posting was a bit too much for me personaly specialy. 2020-22 were great years and I would be right there 100% agreeing with this as Xi is definitely a great leader, will be remembered as a key and historically important figure, undeniably.

But the decision making that led to that horrible stupid meeting with Hitler in the middle of the genocide and their similar timid stance against Israel is the closest I've come to a serious disagreement with some people here that obviously love unironic shallow pro-CPC-Xi meme posting. As such 2023-24 are horrible years imo.

But otherwise I don't see a reason why I'd ever leave. We'll see how this community handles China in the future, for both ourselves and the future of socialism I hope the CPC wont continue with this shitty timid conciliatory stance towards the west as the world continues to burn and the ropes tighten.

Came here from lemmygrad for the memes and news, staying for the memes and news and whatever beanis is

I came after the reddit api exodus.

I stayed for the awesome trans community!

I was on the old /r/cth (with a different username) up until the ban, then I think there were one or two discords that tried to be the successor, but I never really got the hang of discord. Then I saw the announcement that chapo.chat was launching, and I've been here ever since. I've stuck around because a lot of you weirdos seem to have the same mental illness that I do, everyone seems to be caring and empathetic, and y'all have the correct opinions on beans.

I was a lurker on cth and my like 6 accounts prior to this one keep getting banned or i forget the password

you are my friends

/r/chapotraphouse was banned and they made this place so

It's federated with my lemmy instance. I neither seek it out nor avoid it.

Came here from the subreddit r/shitliberalsay. The dunk tank and the memes made me stay here.

Came because of CTH stayed cause of tha ppl

Came to be with comrades after the subreddit got shut down. Been here since then.

Why I stay though? Was for my trans comrades and the shitposts, but after getting banned today in the one shitstorm thread for defending my trans comrades, I’m probably not going to stick around much longer. I’m very unhappy about that.

fun shitposts but also genuinely kind people, least internet-brained internet site where i trust ppl to engage in good faith, broadly correct abt politics and occasionally genuinely informative. i have made little internet buds. idk it's just a good site, 9/10 would recommend

(also came here from the original r/cth w/ a different username, mostly lurked there because there was a bit more caustic reddit bullshit that made posting seem unpleasant.)

I migrated from the previous Kalpa.

it was mentioned to me and compared to other spaces i know.

i'm largely alienated from politics, and it's because i only see leftists who are all talk and don't actually talk about the logistics and issues of doing much. It has been nice to meet people who feel kind of on my wavelength, but actually do things, because I need that role model badly.

The urge to just sort of hunker down and work on myself is strong, and frankly I do need that work, but that urge expresses as me just withdrawing any interest from involving myself with any kind of political action.

I'm not individualist at all, but I am a disaster, and I have no resources to share, I am neurodivergent, and I start disassociating and flipping out if i have to be around people too long.

But the vibe here makes me want to be better in important ways.

I really hope hexbear can keep its soul, because the heart of this place is beautiful, and i'm out the second i sense it's gone.

I heard of hexbear through lemmygrad last year. What made me stay was being able to talk about when my mom died last year or being able to vent about various stuff here. That I wasn't able to elsewhere, last year wasn't, really great.

r/cth refugee and I really appreciate having a trans-positive corner of the internet that is not too liberal :p I have been getting into the News mega an unhealthy amount too.

only caught the subreddit towards the end bc i was going to school and focused. covid rolled around so i was wasting more time on the computer. also allowed normie me (NM) more time to consider politic ideology more patiently beyond “never join the military” so NM was looking for information.

the subreddit was entertaining and also was the logical extension of the Bernie vibe which NM was on board with wholeheartedly. He made me want to go vote and give $20 to a politician.

That ended, NM was left with nothing on the computer besides a job, video games, and the desire to browse supplementary sites for video game discussion (which NM had sworn off to focus on school). The old browsing habits turned into reading about politics and the news and I honest to god think i found the subreddit bc ppl were posting on reddit in general about the donald getting banned and any left wing subs getting quarantined. Joined the discord, joined the site. This is i think my third account. the site got me to read non fiction that actually made sense. i’d always loved reading but it had to grab me. The read settlers posters were right.

stayed bc it’s the only place where the text on my phone/computer reads as sober. Everyone else where people aren’t explicitly posting as communists reads as asinine. I also like only having to open one website to get shitposts, news, discussion, and the occasional sincere blogpost about people’s lives. Oh and there was that recent fundraiser too, that was heartwarming.

I came here because chapotraphouse got banned.

I started using reddit around 2013-2014. I pretty much immediately gravitated to places like r/top_minds as I still had a bit of the deboonking spirit in me from the early aughts. I also liked the other reddit critique subs. I never got into the podcast when it started, I avoided it. I also avoided the sub. It wasn't until 2019 that I started actually listening to the podcast. Of course the sub got removed. I was part of a CTH discord that sucked pretty bad and I wanted a new place. Reddit sucked. I heard about chapo.chat about a month after it started.

I stayed because it was a great reddit replacement and I felt way more comfortable posting here than anywhere else. I have gotten to watch the site grow and change. I have changed a bit too.