Fatigue. There’s just been so much and it’s kinda fucking draining if you stay plugged in to it all. It’s not like doomscrolling will make the situation any better either.
Also like, that was kind of the point of Don’t Look Up. People do just shut these things out. If you understood the movie you should know the answer to your question.
It feels like activity has dropped off a bit since the last Reddit exodus. And I worry that this platform is never going to see the kind of critical mass I’d want out of it, to be big enough that I can use it to discuss more niche topics and fandoms than what’s currently on offer here. I see communities get made and die off on the regular from people who want to use this platform they way they used Reddit but quickly realize they can’t.
I’m still here because I believe in the ideals of a federated platform, but I just don’t know what the future holds at this rate.
Some instances have this baked in as a way to anonymize downvotes, these accounts are not real accounts but are just federated to other instances so they can’t see what actual account the downvote came from. I believe this is now a standard PieFed feature.
IMO, making downvotes public was kind of a mistake of the protocol. There’s a reason why most software stopped showing them publicly, but the fact that they’re there on the backend means a determined user can peek to find out who to get mad at, and I think that’s a problem.
What kind of ‘something’ do you want me to do?