@jacobts told me about it (On facebook... I know!). We'd done improv together before moved away, and he was about to start Improv Trail. He pitched it as something ideal for the improv community, since "I got your back" and "make each other look good" are core tenets of what we do, and those translate well to the community here. I love community-building, so I hopped on, and here I am!

What I love most is that, no matter someone's political affiliation (and I think I know everyone's here. No one is coy about that.) we can all enjoy some of the same things. I grew up in a rural area, and I think there was more listening and being exposed to different viewpoints for us than for people living in a big city (I live in L.A. now) because there just weren't enough people that you could surround yourself with folks who think what you do.

That's what Steemit is right now (and what other social media sites are not -they're big cities where you can spend time only with people who agree). Of course it will grow, and we'll branch out. I've already noticed myself stop following some of the more vitriolic people out there. But I think, if we can remain civil, accepting each other as humans will go a long way towards finds mutually acceptable solutions to problems we can all see, even if, ideologically, we disagree on their causes.