It still is more populated and has a lot higher activity, which suits slightly better for doomscrolling.

Lemmy needs to get slightly more popular. And maybe a centralized place to find different instances?
Like i haven’t found any active fitness related ones.

It’s like coming from a convention Hall full of people and going into a minimally occupied hotel.

I’m not sure such a thing exists. Compliments are already awkward and uncomfortable or do absolutely nothing, which makes it awkward again as i need to pretend some over the top positive reaction.

Well Kremlin could pull out from Ukraine and there would be no attacks on gas hubs

Yeah i do agree that it should be still done, even if just to keep ones surroundings cleaner, just the pretending that it has a notable impact is disingenuous, kinda annoying and misdirects attention from things that can have at least some impact, aka yeah voting.

So basically any effort a single individual has done and can do in the future to reduce their footprint has been undone by 100x. Why are we even bothering?

I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.