We have Leofinance, Sportstalksocial, STEM social, the VIBES community, the Weed community and many many others.
But when I look on Twitter most of the emotion goes on around politics.
20 years ago I moderated a forum named "Freaky World". It was a place for political debate/argument/mudslinging/flaming. It wasn't pretty as friendships broke apart over the arguments that took place there, and moderating it was challenging to say the least.
More recently, we had a big argument within the XRP-based community at Coil.com, centred on Donald Trump and the U.S. Election. It may be an overstatement to say that it destroyed the community, but it sure did cause a lot of lasting grudges and damage across its members.
Politics is flamy. Here in the UK disagreements over Brexit led to broken relationships, destroyed friendships, and torn families.
£350M/week would have been useful for fighting the pandemic here....but in reality this bus mainly manufactured a humongous amount of outrage. Source: https://bbc.co.uk
The reason for this is (I think) mainly because political writeups are often intended to manufacture outrage. Outrage leads to readership, and causes people to think, spend/waste energy and engage. And I am not only talking about the so-called mainstream media doing this, but about you, me and pretty much anyone and any organisation whenever they vent political views!
Somewhere, we collectively have this broken wire, on that connects to the logic that if we make people upset and outraged, then they will change their opinion and support us. Many of us have tried this, and I've seen it for at least 20 years now in most Western countries. And look where we stand: liberals and conservatives stuck in perpetually repeating shouting match, completely entrenched. And just try to begin to imagine the amount of valuable energy lost in all this pointless outrage...
So yes, I strongly believe most political posts, articles and tweets divide people, strengthen the outrage cycle, and collectively waste the time, energy and passion of all involved. Even recycling a tired meme or flamy one-liner means perpetuating the seemingly endless shouting match, and all its accompanied wasted energy.
The Dutch had their own trigger for kicking off the cycle of outrage: first Pim Fortuyn...and then murder of Pim Fortuyn. Source: https://citacoes.in/autores/pim-fortuyn/
So to wrap up: is there a LeoFinance for politics? Say, something like LlamaPolitics? I am not aware of one.
Should there be one? That's not my call to make, but at this time I do not know how one can set such a thing up without perpetuating the aforementioned cycle of outrage.