Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this, but - I come to slrpnk.net to talk with people about solarpunk ideas and actions, but my dash is frequently filled with endless news stories. If I wanted to read upsetting news, I would… go read the news. Climate in particular has almost no discussion about climate change or actions we can take and only news articles. I’ve been thinking of blocking the community so that I don’t have to sift through news stories to get to posts by members of our community. Does anyone else feel like this?
(Note: this isn’t to say that I’m ungrateful for the folks sharing the news articles. I do appreciate it! I just feel that for myself, I’d rather focus on the possibilities that solarpunk has and human connection with others in this movement.)
On the one hand, news and information are important. We need them as a basis for action.
On the other hand, I feel that news are often shared with the hope that someone else will act according to the new information. This applies to scientists, journalists and also posters on social media. This is a very logical assumption. Unfortunately, the action part is sadly much smaller than we had hoped. However, I feel many people (especially scientists) get completely stuck in the logic that information leads to action and try to combat that by sharing even more information, researching for even more details etc.
Instead we should embrace action and invite others to join. However, this somewhat conflicts with the pseudonymity of lemmy. But it may be easier on other platforms, where people more easily share their real identity (mastodon, pixelfed, loops and their commercial counterparts).