Geez I have to block every news community to get away from US news.

That’s very interesting. Where are you from?

Thanks for the comment!

I have been to two weddings. The first one, nobody danced for the first two to three songs, and then only a few of my swing dance friends started encouraging people to give it a try, which people seemed to enjoy. After my friends got tired, people reverted to standing around uncomfortably.

The second wedding didn’t have a dance.

Both situations seemed strange to me.

Hopefully this clarifies the question.

Don’t worry, there’s no blame or judgment or anger. There is simply a misalignment of expectations, and I am trying to derive the source of that discontinuity.

I don’t live in the United States anymore, so no, it was merely to establish why I had some mild expectation that there would be dancing at matrimonial events.

I’m so sorry that other people have been so willingly cruel to you so as to make you hesitant to experience whole class of expression.

To me, dancing is a way to relax and experience music. One of the things my teacher taught me is to smile, “and when you make a mistake, smile bigger.”

Best of luck to you!

Thanks for the encouragement!

Let’s go!

Yay, thank you!

I guess that is the answer to my question that I just didn’t want to hear: that dancing is not as oft-practiced anymore.

I just graduated college, so I’m in my very early twenties.

When I went to the first of my friends’ weddings, one or two years ago, they announced the start of the dance, and no-one participated for the first two or three songs. I was kind of disappointed, because I was looking forward to dancing the night away. Luckily, some of my friends from swing dancing night were there and we helped get people comfortable on the floor. At one point we even organized a line dance! But at first, it was like pulling teeth.

The next wedding I went to didn’t have a dance at all.

I guess I’m just sad at the perceived loss of culture I never got to experience, which is a negative emotion, correct.

Working on it! Right now, with this huge influx of new users, is a great time to create content that is very search engine friendly. In an effort to promote such content, I started the dance community here on kbin. Please join!

https://kbin.social/m/dance

Not at all. I think you may be referring to the part where I said “I am loth to even call it dancing.” I am referring to when people simply stand on the floor without making any attempt to actually engage.

As I said in the post, even my non-dancer friends would still happily participate in a swing dance night without having any sort of training. It seems that people at weddings don’t even attempt to make an effort.

I’m a huge fan of being silly. I am not much of a swing dancer myself, but I will still throw myself on the floor with gusto. It’s fun!

I’ve noticed some similarly weird synchronization issues when posting on japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz: some of my posts show up on the kbin side, but not on the canonical instance.

(Also, yay for m/dance! Am creator and would love some other contributors!)

The way to avoid the fediverse suffering the same fate is not to combat extremism with an equivalent amount of antagonistic political dialogue, but to form meaningful communities around non-political topics.

Instead of bickering in circles about politics, join communities dedicated to your hobbies, career, etc.

My primary concern is for the fediverse to generate content that is search engine friendly. Generally, I don’t think that political squabbles serve that end.

I’m doing my best to practice what I preach. Check my profile.

Helps me practice my German. Unfortunately, I don’t know any German, so it doesn’t help me at all, actually.

I don’t journal or really even take notes by hand anymore. The notebook I have in my bag is mostly for more abstract sketches, mockups, or examples.

However, I make a frequent practice of handwriting postcards to my friends and family, so I keep my handwriting well-maintained for that.

Although I agree with the general sentiment of other comments that are okay with the meta commentary, I do think that it is important for the federalized platforms to build up as much useful and search engine friendly content as possible during this influx of users. Although it doesn’t hurt the efforts to do so, necessarily, the meta commentary probably doesn’t help.

If the fediverse is to become a replacement for reddit, truly, then rather than simply sharing image macros and commenting about the expatriation, you should find a genuine community and contribute to it in real ways.