I’ve been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I’m still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There’s so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don’t perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.
Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn’t handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site’s cultural memory as a result.
I think I was one of the rare people who found kerryposting to be really fucking funny as a form of spam. But if we’re going even further back it would probably be the reddit days when both cumtown and chapo podcasts were talking about the sub for two weeks simultaneously. Lots of funny struggle sessions over podcasts that are just simply gone now
I know he’s been banished now but
’s antinatalism cold open after the subreddit reacted negatively to the Chapos telling people to have kids was one of the funniest things I ever heard.