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franny | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Maybe my perspective is a little biased 😁👀 but the local festival from our neighbor village seemed smaller and less busy than last year 👀 or your area still rocks it :D
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A lot of people are also just too old to go, now. The population of potential goers is essentially half the size as 10 years and they're all antisocial. Can barely get some of them to show up for work.

There's an active, younger subset and that seems to also be the group with the most children.
Maybe this is just evolution.
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franny | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 We still like to spend time together, maybe this will come back but in a different way, evolution. 💯
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +7 
 Well, evolution is genes-and-memes, right? It's not just about one person passing on their DNA, it's also about stronger cultures surviving and spreading. Since humans tend to be related to the people around them, this also results in your DNA spreading, even if you have no direct offspring. The two things are intertwined.

Like, the focus on healthy, fresh food has pushed more people to move out of cities, where they have more living space and fewer distractions. Which causes their birth rate to rise.

In the same way, being on Nostr is more human-friendly than being on legacy systems, and it's created a calmer, more sociable, high-trust environment that is leading to people meeting up in meat-space and dating and we even have our first engagement announcement.

Creating a healthy, supportive, hopeful environment is the basis for human fecundity. People need a safe nest to put their eggs in.