For me it's been like a splash of cold water to the face, remembering just how fucked up 
tier liberal takes were, are, and will likely continue to be.
I'm sure there's downsides to complacency, but it was nice having some ground assumptions when going into a thread, like "society can and should be improved somewhat" or "the ruling class acts in its own immediate self interests and any other claims regarding their motivations are propagandized lies" or "climate change is real, it's bad, and it's getting worse," or more trivial stuff like "Tesla cars aren't good."
I'm sure potential comrades are out there and while it really is necessary to reach out to more people at some point (offline too, orgs especially, but while we're here, you know?), it's been sobering to realize just how far rightward mainstream "progressive" liberal thought really is on average. 
i crossed paths with the fallacy guy
i think defederation should be removed as a feature, and that we should forcibly federate every instance and drive these fuckers from our lands. this pussyfooting around with civility and rules based interactions are an exercise in futility because most of these people are programmed to respond in bad faith when ideologically challenged and would not show us anywhere near the amount of courtesy we have shown them had the shoe been on the other foot with respect to posting power (which is kind of how we ended up here in the first place). there is no baseline of respect on their end to work from and likely negative will to work towards even a minimally balanced mode of discourse because they are a bunch of terminally main character brained metropole dwellers who see us as npcs to be punched down upon.
stalin stopped at berlin, we should not make the same mistake.
I just finished reading through the third Admin post on Blahaj.zone, and reading through all the shit takes towards Hexbear has me real sad.
You’ve articulated my thoughts better than I could right now.