For me it's been like a splash of cold water to the face, remembering just how fucked up reddit-logo tier liberal takes were, are, and will likely continue to be.

I'm sure there's downsides to complacency, but it was nice having some ground assumptions when going into a thread, like "society can and should be improved somewhat" or "the ruling class acts in its own immediate self interests and any other claims regarding their motivations are propagandized lies" or "climate change is real, it's bad, and it's getting worse," or more trivial stuff like "Tesla cars aren't good."

I'm sure potential comrades are out there and while it really is necessary to reach out to more people at some point (offline too, orgs especially, but while we're here, you know?), it's been sobering to realize just how far rightward mainstream "progressive" liberal thought really is on average. yea

  • milistanaccount09 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I already got banned from one of the comms I was interested in posting in so I'd say it's not going great? Finding out the memes of the fediverse were dogshit was also a bummer but not surprising in hindsight. I did like the sigmarxism reddit so I'm glad lemmygrad has one though