I do not mean this as a rhetorical question: I mean it literally. Tell us what’s stopping you! I don’t want to invalidate you, but the opposite. I’m sure people here would love to help if it’s possible. Post away!
Personally, I think Covid and the general amount of work everyone does are the two biggest obstacles to community building. Not just for me, but everybody I know. It’s nearly impossible to build a community when nobody has the energy to even play a video game together, and actually meeting up in person can literally kill you. There are definitely solutions, but we need to realize them as problems first to find them. If you have suggestions, please share them! Same goes for the issues everyone else shares (if they’re ok with help, of course).
i just try to stay hopeful. It's not all bad and I do believe in people, even people here where things seem impossible. You can't fool people forever, and there's a limit to how much people will take before something breaks. I try to think back to the sudden burst of energy in the summer of 2020 and how hopeful it felt. I try to think that soon enough we'll see more of that, more sustained and more focused, because most of those people who marched or broke a cop's windows are still around. Good moments will come, we just gotta be ready and we can't be mired down in defeatist fog. We can't miss our moments