Fediverse

I started posting by picking the communuty for the place i live and trying to post local and independent media and special interest groups articles about/in the context of that place.

Its benefits are,

• It creates activity on the fediverse that is unique, and the more interesting for it.
• You'll be promoting the voices of those less often heard.
• You can also help local and independent media with readers and exposure. Its seen as more of an offline problem of media concentration, but i think theres online solutions for the surviving publications.

If you look through my history you'll see my posts to c/Perth/WesternAustralia there are ebbs and flows in interest but the key point is when something happens, say a protest, or a pub banning some nazis the community is there ready for the users, active and established.

If you go to the sidebar of that community, and all the communities i moderate i have gathered in each a host of resources for people to refer to for articles and information in regards each of those communities. It also helps me to have easy access to those publishers as i look for something i find interesting.

So i don't know what city or State you live in, but if theres a place based server, or a generalist server that hosts a community for it, i'd start posting there. If it looks abandoned maybe jump onto that servers c/meta and request to become the moderator. That'll give you the ability to change things like the sidebar and participate in managing misbehaviour if/when users post things off topic/against the rules for the community.

See you in fediverse ;)

Edit: oh, also posting is a piece of active fun, instead of waiting passivley for something to entertain you. So its fun in a different way to scrolling feeds, or commenting.

The sheer lack of ability to read tone on Lemmy baffles me, and any time someone tries to bring it up you get these "that hasn't happened to me" and "maybe you're an ass" ahh comments. It really snubs any effort to talk about the problem.

This is not my experience at all.

If you are being shitty that may be different. I do not see much of this for people who are engaging, particularly ones engaging like adults or at least good-natured.

I don't know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it's just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁

It's like, how in some movies and shows people have "meaningless" discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don't behave in a toxic way, it's just a way to connect and share ideas!

And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁

More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄