My neighbourhood Facebook groups have gotten much more tolerable, if I’ll be honest. People stopped polluting them with provincial/federal news, and just talk about hyper local stuff, which I really like.
For what it's worth I see a similar trend in the US. I'm in a few neighborhood/city Facebook groups in different places and over the past year or so there does seem to be a new, reasonable consensus of opinion against divisive topics or offensive/rude behavior. Posts have taken a turn toward being people-oriented (e.g., this person needs your help) and utilitarian (recommendations for tradespeople.) Angry, overly political, or confrontational posts are quickly called out or deprived of engagement. It's refreshing!
Yeah it is great, isn’t it? Someone told me there was an announcement from Meta how they’re deranking all political posts (maybe only on Threads?) and there was a lot of curfuffle that said stuff like “censorship”, but I genuinely believe it’s a very good idea. It sucks for big name political commentators, I guess, but I really don’t want to see anything election related when I’m trying to find the opening hours for my farmer’s market.
This is one of the reasons politics is (loosely) a banned topic on HN: right or wrong, it has a tendency to just suck all the air out of the room if it's allowed to run rampant in every forum.