So, to be a different kind of doomer than the rest of the comments…

How does one do community? I realize that sounds stupid, but like… what can I do to help foster community in my… community?

I ask because tbh I’m not a community builder. When I was a kid, I was raised in a church community, and I knew vaguely what went into that, but I’m not religious anymore. So the only path to community that I’m even remotely familiar with is not viable for me anymore.

I don’t need a treatise or anything, but if you have any practical introductory advice on community building for terminally online leftists with a couple small friend groups, that’d be welcomed.

Cash has an identifier on it, but unlike a check that identifier doesn’t identify you.

I feel the same about Krita. I used it for about a year of hobbyist drawing, and I just never could get comfortable using it.

Clip Studio Paint came out with 3.0, and after some deliberation I decided to pay for the update. Felt like coming home. I’ve done more art in two weeks than I’ve done in nearly a year of using Krita.

I suppose community building, detached from geography, is bound to be done primarily by highly motivated advocates.

Maybe that’s pessimistic, I dunno.

Okay?

yeah, fair enough.

Is that considered tankie? I know it’s pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.

When I think ‘tankie’ I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.

“I saw one post. Most agreed. 100% extreme.”

I ain’t saying you’re wrong, but the route you’re taking there is not exactly valid.

I may not be any of those things… but turns out I enjoy the humor of all of them greatly!