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've been staying local and playing home games, going Good Cop/Comrade Cop in discussions here, because I don't have the time nor energy to argue with assholes all day (I'll go thru and up-vote y'all tho, cos apparently I'm a Chinese/Russian Replicant). Also, so far nothing's really come up in my wheelhouse when I hit All/Active (a.k.a. the I-Want-To-Kill-Braincells setting), tho tbf maybe I'm using it incorrectly and not subscribing to the right communities or whatever. I did go and check out lemmy.film but the takes there made me start spontaneously bleeding out of my eyes so
. It's been heartening to find fellow traveler's out in the wild and them finding their way to Hexbear.
Nothing's made me angrier than that covid thread in c/doomer. It's one thing to spew bullshit in a news thread on lemmy.ml for whatever, but to come in here and see people actually grieving and to "but, aksually" that. Then to go crawling back to where he came from and play the victim after getting called out for being a monster. I've never felt more misanthropic in my entire life.
I call for a Protracted People's Posting War upon the Fediverse.