Come March it will be 5 years now in isolation due to COVID. I and many others are isolated from our communities. We're isolated from participating fully in our democracies.
Many online communities are on billionaire owned platforms. Many of our media sources are also owned by billionaires.
So what can we do? Well you're here on the fediverse. That's a start. There are many independent media outlets on here. @FediFollows has quite a few lists of accounts you can follow.