I’m about to leave shitjustworks because they have an AI header. I’ve had an account here on hexbear for three years, but I’ve also made an account there right before Hexbear started federating, and I’ve been using that one more. I largely stayed out of the drama between the two instances when that happened, so you may say I’m late to pick a side… But now I’ve definetly had enough of AI crap, so I’m falling back on this account.
Now, I just wanted to check how the logo was made. I don’t think it’s AI, it doesn’t look that much like it and I remember it’s been the same since before AI got that mainstream… But to check I wanted to see if the artist was credited on the banner, or the sidebar, or the lines below… But nothing. So, who’s the artist and why do I not see them credited?:
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It’s definitely not AI. We’ve had that logo since the website was created in 2020 which was before public AI image generators were any good. As to who the author is, I’m willing to bet it was someone who was in the OG lifeboat discord server when /r/chapotraphouse was banned. They’re probably not around anymore under the same name.
I figured so, but it’s a shame we don’t have a name, I hope that’ll come up.
Until then Juan Guaidó will be declared interim creator of the Hexbear logo.
We had the logo before the name change to hexbear so its probably from either the discord lifeboat or the original admins
Now im curious for the hexbear backstory. What was the discord lifeboat?
Ok so the timeline was like this
first we have the subreddit chapotraphouse about the podcast of the same name and it becomes a general leftist subreddit
after it gets really big (like over 150k people) reddit bans it over the “slaveowners should be killed” posts
a little before that a discord gets made refered to it as the lifeboat where part of the community joins
then there was a time were the original admins search for a new forum to migrate to and they choose lemmy
the site is originally called chapo.chat and has the hexbear logo
later its decided to change name to one that isnt tied to the podcast and Hexbear is chosen
finally after some time we decide to update the site to the newest lemmy vesion to enable federation and that were we are currently
I can confirm that the logo is not AI because a) it is a vector graphic composed of basic shapes, b) I have the SVG itself on my drive and have used it to make emotes such as
and c) it was made in 2020—before diffusion models caught their stride, i.e. 2021-2022. Before the field’s adoption of diffusion models, basing any design in of AI image generation isn’t really a recipe for anything coherent? Even if so, you’re either really lucky or you’re filling in gaps. To give a better idea of the timeline here, this was novel in 2020:
data science major btw
also I’m not seeing any first and last names on the Github accounts contributing to Hexbear, as well as security numbers, can we have an update on that?Lol, obviously I meant a pseudonym or account name.
Just kidding, welcome back
Thank you!
Belated welcome, I was also on shitjustworks before coming here. It was my first instance after leaving reddit.
Thank you!
Reject AI. Retvrn to dope ass bear.
Welcome back!
Thank you!
- this one’s asking too many questions. Where did we get the logo from anyway?
Pretty sure @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net made it if notit was either an admin or dev that is likely no longer a part of the project, gave permission to use, and does not want credit for opsec reasonsI did not make the logo itself—I made the larger watermark logo
and all variants with the text placed akin to that.
