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That sounds like an unmet need in our community. Do you think it would be helpful to have a dedicated thread or comment section where voicing negative feelings and perspectives was expected/encouraged?
Is it really unmet? Many of the default communities, especially the top ones, are constant feeds of at least half posts consisting of negative news about politics, economics, and environmental news. If the articles aren’t negative, the comments often are. Like my comment I guess, though I don’t intend to be argumentative.
I’m struggling with how much is wrong and how hard it fixing it appears to be as well. But I don’t think there is a lack of that acknowledgment here at all.
Yes, and many have noticed. The result is a burgeoning thought-leadership effort to address it as a cyclical demoralization problem that’s impeding online resistance efforts, in the fediverse especially.
This effort is mostly carried out in remedial comments that “call out” provocateurs for unhelpful ideas: fatalism/defeatism, promotion of self-harm and stochastic terrorism (unsubtle nod to OP), accelerationism and morbid ideations, criticism of valid efforts like protests as “not enough,” etc. For recent examples, a comment search for “doomer” should turn up plenty.
The tone of these corrections range from gentle shepherding to brassy “stow that shit” policing, but the core message is always the same: that’s not helpful talk. Even when it’s pitched as personal betterment or mental health advice, as described by others above, it could absolutely come across as a call for self-censure or invalidation of what many are feeling right now.
I don’t know the answer, btw. I only asked because I’m interested in reconciling the needs of both our wounded who may need their despair validated to process it and heal, and our fit for duty who need to focus on solutions and what lies ahead.