I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
I feel like having many communities works well on large platforms, but on smaller ones it fragments the already limited content, which in turn makes most communities inactive and reduces engagement.
Politics. Some of us are stuck with the chaos and destruction of US politics, and the rest of lemmy is probably tired of hearing about it.
Every day brings a new disaster for us science, technology, environment, education, quality of life, freedom, new abuses of human rights and constitutional authority, new violations of leadership holding themselves above the law. Outrage of racism and classism, stoked divisiveness. It’s certainly exhausting and horrifying but it’s also my future, my kids future.
We try to rein it in but it affects our everyday lives, so it leaks online. I understand wanting to avoid it. I wish I could