Okay, gottit. We should observe bad things and not say anything about it. Mucho better!
Yup, I got that style of comment when someone asked me “Why are you using reddit then?” even if I used it more that doesn’t invalidate my argument.
All that is left of my Reddit account is inactivity and the fact that I removed myself from all the groups that where not Canadian centric in January. Maybe someday I will go back to it, maybe it will be sold to some agency outside of US. I doubt it though, I will hopefully forget about it. If I get emails about it I will change that address to not forward to one of the email addresses I check.
Having an older reddit account is great for advocacy purposes since people tend to trust the older ones more. I proudly have a 2 year badge on mine. But I often wonder how much more effective with the message I could’ve been with a 15 year old one.
Having an older reddit account is great for advocacy purposes since people tend to trust the older ones more.
keep propping up the shithole. keep giving them pageviews and ad clout.
yeah, you’re showing them what for. huzzah
Do not reject imperfect allies, r/BuyCanadian is still a force for good, it’s helped many find the Fediverse and Canadian products
We’re all trying our best and every little bit we do counts. If they’re not ready to be off reddit yet, that’s okay, at least they’re doing other stuff to boycott US products.
The moderators are good but it would be better if they can transplant all their users to here instead.
Agreed, I hope the same for other Subs
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Wait did something happen to threaten subreddit? It seems to be humming along.
I do belive sunshine is just pointing out the contradiction of using an American owned social media site to encourage people to buy canadian.
Which is moronic. As long as you don’t pay for premium, why should it be a problem?
If you go that way, you should not use any device produced outside of Canada. Or from foreign brands.
The idea of the movement is to stop giving away money to USA companies. Not to become Mormons.
Because it gives the platform engagement? Provides them with traffic/ad impressions to monetize? Out of all the boycotting, the tech boycott is most important
If you have already boycotted apple, Netflix, Amazon, apparel brands, food products, etc. Sure. Go ahead.
But how are you going to communicate about your efforts and spread the movement if you are living in a cave?
Oh I don’t know maybe go places and talk to people. I don’t use any of that shit and I’m still organized as are my friends and neighbors.
Ah! Yes! Being on Reddit prevents you from doing that 🤣
Way to shift the discussion.
You don’t need Reddit or other American based social media to stay connected.
To be fair, the encouraging diversification away from American services, even those you don’t directly give money to is still good practice. We don’t want America controlling our communication and culture any more than our economy.
That said, its obviously not an easy process since, as it stands, there isn’t a viable alternative to Reddit for normal users.
isn’t a viable alternative to Reddit for normal users.
I disagree as Lemmy and Piefed are super straightforward and are both getting better with time.
How many users will you impact in these platforms? It looks like users who already moved are already in the movement.
But if you want to impact those who are still unsure, you need to communicate where they are…
I posted the meme on r/buycanadian, so hopefully that encourages more folks to check us out.
So you need a reddit presence. That’s ok.
Theres a solid foundation, but there just isn’t the userbase. For example, I still have to go to Reddit if I want to discuss Dota, CS2, or War Thunder theorycrafting. These are massive, internationally popular games with compex mechanics and shifting metas that encourgae constant discussion, and yet there is barely a post a month across all three communities combined, nonetheless meaningful discussion. If we can’t even manage a baseline pulse for popular and dedicated niches that appeal to the Fediverse’s nerdy userbase, what could we offer for regular users, looking for smaller niches, nonetheless local topics.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope the Fediverse succeeds. I am still here, and contributing to the best of my ability, but not everyone wants to try and kickstart a new platform in their spare time. For most users, Lemmy will need to grow tenfold before it can even compete with Reddit, nonetheless replace it.
There are many users who are willing to put in the work in supporting new communities if they had seen all the advantages, apps, frontends you have with the threadverse. Many don’t even know that Piefed and Lemmy exists.
Not where I would start. Stop buying iPhones, cancel Netflix, boycott Amazon. Give the finger to Nike and every USA apparel brands.
Then Go away from Reddit and the likes.
If you can’t communicate about your efforts, you might as well go live in a cave.
But hey! To each their own.
There are more reasons to drop Reddit than the US boycott.
In a sub " buy Canadian" 🤦🏻♂️
Why do people need a reddit alternative? It’s not really important.
If there was a premium option that people could pay for then they are the customer; if you are using it for free you are the “premium option,” in most cases, the open source world is different though. When Reddit was first a thing there where many different clients you could use some had ads some did not, when Reddit became more of a thing they turned off “the fire hose” to all the other apps you could use. Why did they do that? Well your eyeballs are worth more than whatever fee the apps were paying to use the fire hose.
It does not mater if you believe the ads do not affect you or not, they do. Don’t for a second think that oh they can try and make money off of me but I am not paying attention. The ad marketing companies have files on everyone who uses credit or debit cards then all the services they are signed up to along with every other thing attached to those services. Then you are being tracked so the ad market can build up things about who you are and how you fit in the world. We live in a capitalist world everything is about money, if you use Reddit you are paying a US company.
Read my other comments.
It’s not about that. It’s about prioritizing and making an impact.
If we could crash the US ad market in Canada we would be hurting them a lot. Remove yourself as much as you can from the US economy.
That’s exactly what I’m saying and doing.
Thank you.
You are not saying or doing that you are saying keep your eyeballs on Reddit, to tell others about Lemmy. Giving Reddit your eyeballs is paying Reddit.
Ehhh, I’ve stopped using reddit but I don’t fault people for it and the significant amount of available content.
And in this case I imagine way more people, like by orders of magnitude, are at least seeing, engaging and noting Canadian brands albeit via an American service.
