After r/chapotraphouse was banned a portion of their users created hexbear, since lemmy was even less developed at the time they had to fork lemmy to make it usable for their community, recently they migrated back to lemmy as it is more established now. Ideologically they are communist.

If you are critical of western nations then you should stop uncritically swallowing their propaganda about their geopolitical enemies

This post offers better estimate of hexbear’s active user count