Join the Attention Strike - 27th November
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from Paddy66@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 04 Nov 12:24
https://lemmy.ml/post/54894817
from Paddy66@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 04 Nov 12:24
https://lemmy.ml/post/54894817
Starve Big Tech of your attention on 27th November - don’t use any of their apps.
Sign up at this tracker to contribute to showing the number of hours withheld 😊
The strike is organised by Take Back Big Tech, and this tracker page was made by Pull The Plug.
PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT STILL USE BIG TECH APPS 😃
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I don’t use any of their apps normally… except Google maps (cause of family location sharing). I’ll stop that for a day
and please share the link with friends and family still trapped in the big tech trap.
Now, I’m no mathematician, but what is going on with their math? If you’re asking people to give it up for 24 hours, why minimize the reclaimed hours by only counting 4 per person?
“That’s reclaiming 312 hours from big tech’s control. If 1000 people signed up, we could save 24,000 hours.”
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One days starvation won’t even show up their monthly analytics
Not to be a mood killer, but most of us are here because we didn’t like what Reddit was turning it to. Especially and personally since 2023 where they started charging for their API use. This was not a 24 hour pause, or insignificant symbolic action. This is people actively leaving the platform. Yet their active user count has risen ever since
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User count ≠ users
User accounts are just shitty bots.
Reddit is not actually in scope for the strike (more detail here www.rebeltechalliance.org/collectiveaction.html#a… ) but i see what you mean.
Sure, people in this community will be way beyond this. The idea is to share it with your friends and family who are not there yet. I’ll tell Take Back Big Tech that the next strike would need to be much more significant. This one is supposed to get people used to the idea, and to try alternatives.
I appreciate the idea, but this “Attention Strike” for a single day will have clearly insignificant impact on tech services. It’s like expecting a 4 hours long national protest to do any damage on the economy. I already don’t use social media at all most of the days.
For an impact to be present it should last at least for a month. Not so hard to put in place, there are lots of people already doing some form of absteinance on november for no reason, there is pride month, there is christmas month, just need to tell em to reduce/stop using social media for this month (eg. November)
It’s by reducing their daily usage of social media for a month that people will understand they can keep this routine even out of that month, and thus reducing effectively their revenue for the companies.
a month would be a big ask for fully addicted mainstream types. this is a baby steps thing - people in this community will be way beyond this. The idea is to share it with your friends and family who are not there yet.
Can we get a list of what counts as “Big Tech?” Lemmy is already my only social media and I don’t use any messengers outside of Signal and Simplex. Are we talking classical Silicon Valley (FAANG)? Chromium browsers? Anything at all on an iPhone or Android? What about game platforms?
This is so vague.
yes it’s the main american ones. We’ve listed the specific ones on our site (and linked to Take Back Big Tech’s site): www.rebeltechalliance.org/collectiveaction.html#a…
Sometimes I still watch youtube on my TV because it’s doomed as a shared family resource anyways. I could just not that day and play games offline.
Alright, I’ve got about a 6 year head start. Let’s get em.
Why not just do it now?
all at once on a single day is easier to organise and more impact will be shown - it’s more concentrated. But yes, obviously long term everyone has to permanently come off the
drugsapps permanently.