The ‘fediverse’ and all this talk of decentralization being great for leftist organization completely falls apart when the aspects most benefitted by decentralization is immediately delisted/blocked by libshits.

I’ve been around a lot of menial work. Trolley pusher, warehouse work, pizza delivery - right now I’m settled into a very cozy corporate gig doing health insurance. It’s remote work and incredibly easy so I’m sticking with it.

Just like you I do have aspirations of getting into a job that feels more meaningful and is actually essential for my community. The one constant through all of my jobs, no matter how hard or easy they are, is that they feel pointless. I’m just a cog in the machine and don’t get to see or enjoy the output of my labor. No matter how good a job is, I just can’t be happy in the long term like that.

I wonder if it’s struck them yet that, as their neoliberal platform fails, other platforms built on fundamentally better ideas and infrastructure are rising up. I wonder if this challenges their preconceived notions at all? Nah, it’s just a bunch of tankies.

Was extremely disgruntled to find out this morning that I didn’t have lemmygrad to browse instead of working.

I don’t think you’re being dramatic at all. That’s a really tough situation. Are your friends all drug users? If you’ve recently stopped using drugs, losing some friends is a pretty common side effect.

Lots of people are feeling alienated, perpetually. It’s just a consequence of how our society is laid out. I’m not saying this to downplay what you’re going through, but to highlight that it’s a problem lots of people struggle with, which means there are solutions out there.

Some people I know get a lot of socializing done through the web, where strong online communities can offset that sense of loneliness. I personally don’t think that’s the best solution, but you’re here in lemmygrad. You have comrades that care.

More helpful would be to find some hobby groups. When I had to kick a drug habit, I spent a lot of time at game stores, getting involved in tabletop sessions. Maybe you have a hobby you could find a club for?

Pretty important, I would say. Focusing on those areas can help alleviate feelings of helplessness or alienation as well. Is your basic security at risk here? Do you have shelter, income for food, etc?

These sorts of platforms are extremely popular with communists for a reason.

It’s about the opposite of the nauseating neolib standard, though.

Maybe in the end, we are wrong and despite the propaganda, there are human rights violations. But our support for the USSR comes from their achievements to better the human condition, and we hope to build on it. There are no human rights violation that inspires our ideology like it does for fascism or Nazism.

Well said, OP. Honestly, I get pretty lost in a lot of the discussions surrounding human rights violations. From my view, every government on Earth is infringing on the rights of one group or another. My respect for the USSR begins and ends with “cool nation changed the world within a single generation, got us into space, and uplifted the livelihoods of its entire population.”

All of Reddit’s benefits are going to be slowly stripped away. They are under the belief that market saturation is all they need to keep Reddit relevant, but that’s not the case.