My answer:
When chapotraphouse was banned on reddit many mods and users came together to create a space on a link aggregator platform.
Choosing lemmy the original admin and developer team decided to fork it for various reasons. About a year ago, sustained effort was taken to upstream many of the forked features so that we could rebase with current version lemmy and federate.
Over the years hexbear has become a non-sectarian social media space for sharing news, memes, links, posts and comments with each other as the mods endeavour to make the space welcoming to marginalized people.
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please repost this in the dunk tank
I requested a small community change from the same mod that sharedburdens mentioned, that mod promptly leaked the DM in a 196 post mocking me.
The lemmy.blahaj.zone admin "talked to the mod" instead of taking action, this along with what sharedburden stated made it pretty clear that prioritizing the 196 community over any concerns we had is what would occur.
Despite their admins demanding changes from us that we accommodated, any requests from our side would be routinely ignored.