@[email protected]’s comments were deleted in a thread I was just looking at, and I went onto their profile and it also appears to have been deleted? Anyone have any knowledge about them? It’s sad if we’ve lost such a long-time excellent member of this community.
I can’t even talk politics now, for some reason half the people I work with are more interested in conservative American politics and that is not in my wheelhouse.
As for Mastodon, no, I don’t enjoy it in the traditional sense. I use it for a fairly decent environmental etc. news feed (hashtags mostly) which has low angst, but, unfortunately there is little to no discussion of the topic at hand. I can’t really get into the whole broadcasting style. I miss forums too much it seems but the world has moved on. People are happy with the privacy-stealing genocide platforms and I’m not going there!
Good luck.
Old school forums were pretty great. I’ve recently been much more heavily on the official Age of Empires forums since getting away from Reddit, where most of the discussion happens. Those forums are nowhere near as active as the various Aoe subreddits, but still a pretty lively place for some good meaningful discussions, which is nice. Definitely not as good as back when any subject would have fan- (as opposed to company-)run forums to choose from, but not too bad.
But yeah I’m with you on the broadcasty nature of Twitter & hence Mastodon. I use Mastodon occasionally, but find it rather awkward to interact with compared to the topic-based communities on Lemmy.