[lapcat]

You've spent the time to go on Hacker News, read about the online drama, and then comment on the online drama.

The author considered their writing on social media to be social activism, so that may be why they spent so much time on it, for a higher purpose.

[matrix87]

> You've spent the time to go on Hacker News, read about the online drama, and then comment on the online drama.

it's usually easier to read about something after the fact than it is to participate in it as it's unfolding. Especially if there are strong emotions involved

> social activism

It's less about the end goal than the way she goes about accomplishing it. Taking the time to seek out alt-right troll accounts to regularly engage with is probably the worst way of doing it (both from the standpoint of effectiveness and psychological cost involved)

[saurik]

But, this is the drama... you are part of the drama ;P (as am I! and we are both doing this--"instead of doing something actually pleasant"--because, what? FWIW, I can see the argument that it is maybe being justified mentally as "social activism"--for both of us, though in different ways--but I actually think, at least for me, that it is a form of escapism and addiction).

[matrix87]

Well as far as drama goes, this community is about as dramatic as a box of cereal

On the one hand for me, it's escapism. On the other, there's a lot of novelty available, new things that we'd never encounter irl. Which gives us new ideas for things to try irl. Sort of like the printing press spreading information faster

[John23832]

Eh idk if that’s true.

Think about the drama that was the recent rust for Linux lead resigning. People then have their opinions about it and then it spills into the comments here.

I think you just care less about the social media drama as described in the submission (which is ok).