It’s true that protesting by absenting yourself from the corrupt mainstream kinds turns what could be a fuck-you counterculture moment into a fuck-you-im-leaving subculture…

It’s just so gross out there lol. If anyone can stomach it while also not being co-opted though that’s cool and I support it.

I do think protests have their place though, but it’s like a cookout at the park type thing almost. You meet irl, you network, you vibe check; then you go on to do your other actions.

If some people just want to show up to vibe out and maybe put some radical slaps up that’s cool too. Probably good to have more normal types in attendance to be a shield for more radical elements.

I definitely feel more motivated to participate here, because of the emphasis on human to human interactions

Yes, and

their ultimate goal is to make people use the APP monetise every single interaction

I plan on going to smaller fediverse graphs if it ever gets too mainstream around here.

The moment I see a fuckin brand I am out. Joining whatever network has a zero tolerance policy for that corporate fuckery.

Problem here is it relies on people using redit after having found lemmy. I know some people do, but I can only imagine it’s a one-way valve for most.

Yes, I wasn’t correcting anything in your commend, just adding a little more context. I guess this is why we start all our comments with “yeah” hahaa

I know some of these words.

Yeah like a band saw that builds a profile of every interaction on the internet to sell to advertisers and fascist governments. Use with care!!

Though I suppose most of it was already copy pasted anyway.

Wtf kind of code are they taking about? Like first year “pomodoro tracker” projects? These days the only thing I really copy paste are Linux commands, and even then

Since everything is political the only way to get that through to people so steeped in the mainstream ideology that they don’t view it as political, is to call your point also apolitical.

Otherwise they just get their backs up and thinking you’re proposing some new complication over their “default” or natural or whatever ideology.

Wouldn’t have been my first choice but this is cooking

And yet I try to get one little grenade into Jeff Bezos’ wedding…

He did, but some situations inflame or defuse more than others. Nothing here was guaranteed.

This reminds me of how a buddy of mine used to rename his desktop files from like “Carmaggedon demo” to remove the “demo” because it made him feel rich.

I mean it’s labour day long weekend, I’m sure there’s one near you. I don’t want to dox myself, but I’ll be harassing a local MP with a group sometime this weekend. It’s not the whole war but it’s pretty high impact for what a dozen people would otherwise be able to do with just votes or dollars.

Alright, so what’s the plan?

Saved

My beloved

True. Profit is about the only thing these companies will never generate, but there’s still money being thrown at them, it’s just being spent on bonuses, mergers, and data centers.

Scrapers could peel off 1B of that to pay for what they’re taking (like the pay for antique, print only books—because they can’t physically steal those) instead of just robbing the commons if they really wanted to, if they thought that anything they were doing was ethically defensible or financially sustainable. ___

So… pay for it? It’s not like the money isn’t there