Comment on People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.
jocanib@lemmy.world 11 months agoFFS. There is no point lecturing people from on high. Talk about it, sure. Information is good. But moralising will do nothing useful. Point your fingers at the bad guys, not the people who are just trying to live their lives under mostly quite difficult circumstances. Improve the environment in which people are forced to make difficult trade-offs. Don’t bully them for facing difficult trade-offs and not being obsessed about exactly the same things you are. It will do you, or anyone else, any good. The problems are structural, fight the structures.
im not sure where you are seeing this, unless you are speaking generally.
if this is directed at me, I would say its this tone I get from people that would inspire me to look down and potentially lecture.
as i am often told, its not what you are saying, its how you are saying it.
Yeah, they really come off as an angry jerk when they’re telling us not to be jerks.
ive projected my online anger before too. on lemmy there are going to be a lot of
“i dont like this about the internet”
wit replies that say
“well dont use the billionaires toy, drive your own internet instead”
which regardless of how its presented i expect can feel like an onslaught if you are trying to understand and still feel connected in some way to those networks.
Ive never really depended on them for connection and have always considered it extremely rude to expect me to communicate with you using systems like these. Its not just a game of “come talk to me here” its “you can only talk to me if you click 3 agreements, hand over your personal info to a large corp and accept multiple trackers on your browser”
thats quite an ask for messages I can send via email if its REALLY that important.
Pandantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t it difficult to initiate change to big companies without user pushback? What impetus do they have to change when their user base accepts what they are given? Sure, regulators and legislators should do something, but they aren’t going to do it on their own. People need to do their part, and mass exodus is something the media reports on. I’m not asking anyone to abandon these places entirely, especially if their communication with certain people relies on it, but anyone can move away from them to some extent. Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not with doing. Also, in no way am I saying that it is the users sole responsibility to bring down or hold these companies accountable, but it usually takes some grassroots to get something started.
jocanib@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People need to do a lot of things. Very few people have the time to do everything they’d like to do, let alone everything you’d like them to do.
Attack the systems that trap us, not the people who are trapped by them. This is not hard.
Pandantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How do you think we should attack the system? Isn’t boycotting exactly that?
jocanib@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Of course it is. But attacking other people for not joining your boycott is attacking other people, not the system. Like I said, talk about why you boycott X but don’t sneer at or lecture anyone who is not also boycotting X.
This is not hard.