Same thing here. I was always vaguely left wing/pro FOSS/etc, but joining Lemmy introduced me to solarpunk and a much more anarchist/radical community in general. Since I started using Lemmy during the reddit API stuff I pretty quickly went from wishing I ate less meat -> vegetarian -> vegan and from vaguely anti-capitalism -> anarchist. Now I’m learning to hand mend my clothes and joining local mutual aid groups lol.
Just posting about bad things happening shouldn’t be the limit of what action people take (unless that’s all they can do obviously), but it’s also far from completely pointless to try and spread awareness of stuff like anarchism/anti-capitalism or ways you can make an impact/support others. Movements and ideas can’t spread if no one is talking about them. Plus posting about actual concrete actions you can do is super useful to anyone who wants to do something but doesn’t know how to start.
Trans person here, Harris sucked as a candidate. Her refusal to take any sort of stance against an ongoing genocide isn’t the sole reason for her loss but it was certainly a pretty big factor, alongside all of the other positions she didn’t meaningfully differentiate herself from Biden on in an attempt to win over non-existent moderate republicans. I don’t blame a single person for refusing to vote for her, no one’s vote belongs to a party. Being upset at the people who wanted at least one of the candidates running for president to not be actively supporting a genocide instead of those politicians, who were actively supporting a fucking genocide, seems at best misguided.
(Also, of the anarchist/leftist groups and spaces I’ve visited or been a part of irl, a pretty significant number of the people there have been queer or trans or in some other marginalized group.)