I do not mean this as a rhetorical question: I mean it literally. Tell us what’s stopping you! I don’t want to invalidate you, but the opposite. I’m sure people here would love to help if it’s possible. Post away!

Personally, I think Covid and the general amount of work everyone does are the two biggest obstacles to community building. Not just for me, but everybody I know. It’s nearly impossible to build a community when nobody has the energy to even play a video game together, and actually meeting up in person can literally kill you. There are definitely solutions, but we need to realize them as problems first to find them. If you have suggestions, please share them! Same goes for the issues everyone else shares (if they’re ok with help, of course).

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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know and people just most of the times don't seem to be interested in forming any sort of actual bond (which has kept my friend circle terribly small since I've moved two years ago) and all the leftist organizations around are just really not particularly inviting (they are nice and open but there's always some stench of the scene to them), but here's some good news: There's some student organizing that seems to be brewing at my university with more than one genuinely spontaneous action against the university leadership (and the continuous police presence on campus) in the last two weeks that I've been part of. We'll see if more develops from that (the Christmas break sure has put a damper onto things) but I'm in good spirits, people do really seem to have some energy for once and I sure hope to find a place for me within there somehow. There's a resurgence of politically organized house squatting in my city as well, which in a city where the rent prices are absolutely ridiculous is great to see.