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I suppose you won't see my reply if you're removing all your accounts, but for the sake of anyone else reading, it's perhaps worse because this is a more liberal platform, even if we're not all of the same leftist groups. The increasing rise of ultra-conservative/nationalist/fascist leaders and policy will hit us harder than a more diverse group like Reddit.

While I don't want to see gloating right wingers, it really leaves us with a lack of positive perspectives. That circles around sort of to my reason for making this post. I'm posting stuff almost purely to be positive and uplifting, and people respond really well to what I do. But then when it's my turn, there's no positive energy to recharge me... I feel like I'm the only one giving it. That in turn, turns up my feelings of responsiblity to you all, and leaves me even more drained some days. I don't want to quit here or what I do here, but some days it's tough to spend too much time here.

Quietly moving along has been the approach I've been doing. I try to keep in mind that I only really interact with them in a very brief sense every now and then, so I'm only getting the tiniest sliver of who they are when they interact with my posts. They're their own people with their own thoughts, and since there's no face-to-face interaction, I think I just project a bit too much personality on them sometimes.

I don't think I've ever responded to any of them, because I enjoy the interactions they have with me that do pertain to me and what I am interested in sharing, That is a success that I have at that point, and the likeliness that I will change someone's opinions on politics or whatnot isn't very high, so it's not worth it.

With some I've interacted with on a daily basis though, I guess I just wish they would always be smart and funny like they are in my space, which is almost purely positive, all the time. It's unfair to expect them to be happy and rational though when they're in a thread talking about things that make them mad though, It bothers me to see them get upset, even if we're not friends in a traditional sense, I feel I've gotten to see them as good and happy people and I don't like something making them be angry/upset/sad/etc.

I'm fine with people disagreeing with what I say though. I try not to throw around too much opinion and generally will have sources for things I share, so if they turn out to be wrong, I really do wish to know about it so I can be properly informed. I like to learn in general, so it's important to be able to vet the facts I'm finding.

Good point about contextualizing. People are allowed to let off steam sometimes, and with only text to go by, people could be serious, but they could also just be working through frustrations.

We all have our share of bad takes, and I should only put so much weight into random things some relative strangers say. I delete a lot of posts before sharing because I decide I'm either edging into things I may not understand as much as I think, or that what I'm about to say may have me come off as confrontational. Different people just have different concepts of self control.

I've only ever seen you be très chouette! You do a lot of great community building and watching you do your thing still makes me happy!

This is very true. The majority of what I share can be appreciated at surface level, but the people that actually interact and participate I like to think are there to be open minded and to learn new things.

If I'm looking to teach people things, the audience will be coming from all different backgrounds and opinions, but my primary goal is to show them new things and to get them to think more critically about them. Even if I'm not in agreement with them on things at times, they are still taking time to show an interest in what I'm talking to them about. They deserve to be free to say what they want, but there's no more obligation for me to have to agree with it than there is to listen to everything I have to say.

Though I don't know if I'd absolutely put it how you did, there is an element of truth I think it's hard to argue. This place was started by hard Left ideologues, and I learned quick that American far leftists aren't near as far left as those from other places sometimes! I do feel rather centrist here compared to most places in my real life.

Everyone is fairly free here to speak their mind, whether that's something brilliant, stupid, or somewhere in between.

I was very late to Reddit and avoided most of the drama there, but even though I don't agree with much of the Lemmy founders' political leanings, I do respect that they made this place viable and that the rest of us get to use it.

I also agree extremists to either direction start to look more alike the more extreme they go. The environment is one of my highest priorities, but things like eco extremism I can sympathize with, but I don't want to see people killing each other to protect it either, and I don't know how many laws I'd personally be willing to break to do it.

I did watch How to Blow Up a Pipeline today though, and I didn't really feel bad about much anyone did in that... They specifically made sure they didn't hurt anyone or the environment, though some characters debated if hurting people causing the problems was ok.

while the ones we are talking about here are Alt-Left, but is there all that much difference, really?

Yes

There are definitely threads I've seen where that would have been the only necessary response! 😂