Yesterday, an unexpected admin post was made announcing that hexbear would be shutting down and recreating two of their most popular communities (a): the_dunk_tank and dredge_tank. For those who are not aware, those two are some of the most notorious comms in the threadiverse which routinely cause inter-lemmy drama (disclaimer, the deteriorating relations between our instance and hexbear and my own ban from hexbear was ultimately triggered by various posts in the_dunk_tank)

The stated reason was to promote more thoughtful discussions and to prevent a white cishet mindset which was apparently promoted by the content in those comms, according to the mods and admins.

Within a day 1.3 thousand comments were made with hexbear regulars upset at this decision and discussing within.

However, before this announcement, the top admin of hexbear posted in the cross-lemmy admin matrix chat urging other admins to close down their “drama communities” as well.

Hexbears caught wind of this and quickly accused the admin of duplicity, and having other motives instead of their stated ones. The admin in question as defense admitted that it was their attempt to manipulate other lemmy instance admins and it backfired on them

After a whole day of this, the main admin decided to step away from hexbear (a) , followed by more resignations (a)

In the midst of this, people realize another old-mod had recently come back after a 3-year hiatus, and now people start suspecting some correlation. That mod makes a public post (a) before shortly after deleting their account.

There’s also smaller pieces of chaos ongoing, such as one admin, banning one of their alts “as a bit” using wording that they were not aware is misgendering (“fella”) which caused other hexbears to pile on. Eventually that was resolved, and admins are asked to tone down the “bit doing” during this heated period.

This “struggle session” is still ongoing, with people are asking the resigned mod to come back , and other admins unbanning accounts which were getting banned left and right(a) but it seems those popular comms still remain shut down.

EDIT: Even lemmygrad is wondering what the hell is going on

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 days ago

    What did everyone have for breakfast this morning? My wife made biscuits and I ate one with butter and fresh strawberry jam. It was delicious.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 days ago

      The wife and I slept in today so we went to our local taco shop called Maskadores. It’s basically Subway for Mexican food. Pick your dish, pick your meat, then your toppings. She had carne asada tacos with lettuce, pico, queso blanco, and cilantro. I had a chile relleno burrito. Literally a chile relleno wrapped in a tortilla with rice, refried beans, guac, cilantro, and pico. It was delicious.

    • inlandempire@jlai.lu
      3·
      9 days ago

      I ate a Catalan biscuit called Rosquilla, it’s very sweet with a touch of Anise so one is more than enough with some tea

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      I could crush a biscuit with butter and jam. A nice, unsalted butter. Maybe even sweet butter if you can swing it.

      • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        Nice! I love waffles and I’m an artisan maple syrup maker. My favorites are big, fluffy Belgian waffles with berries, whipped cream, and maple syrup or chocolate chip pecan waffles with maple syrup.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          8 days ago

          I love waffles and I’m an artisan maple syrup maker.

          That’s pretty awesome. “Tree to bottle”? That is, are you doing the whole process from managing trees, through to tapping, and concentrating? My grandfather was in the rubber industry, so, I find this stuff incredibly interesting.

          Yum. Berries on Belgian waffles are also my favorite. Definitely miss all of the varieties from growing up in the PNW.

          • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 days ago

            That’s pretty awesome. “Tree to bottle”? That is, are you doing the whole process from managing trees, through to tapping, and concentrating? My grandfather was in the rubber industry, so, I find this stuff incredibly interesting.

            Yes. Not only that but I build the machines and automation to bring the sap in from the trees, store it, run in through the RO, and store it again for boiling. I also welded the evaporator that I use to do the boiling.