Sometimes resisting requires more than 15 seconds of your time.
Right, exactly. It seemed strange to see people acting as if spending 15 seconds of idle time on one’s phone to do a goofy little “resistance” act described in the original post was somehow actively harming any kind of meaningful resistance. I wondered if there was some quick and easy yet somehow far more effective action I could have taken during those few moments.
I’ve de-googled, forsaken Amazon, embraced Linux and open source free software (rather than apple/Microsoft etc.), tried to be aware of bad companies like Nestlé and not buy their stuff, stood with signs, protested, pestered politicians, done my best to stir up unrest against the ridiculously awful things going on. I’m hoping to find more I can do, I am by no means an expert at this stuff, I’m learning as I go. But I think I’ll still also have the time to do derpy little things like nag Google with feedback while sitting on the can browsing Lemmy.
Good on ya. Hopefully we can get others to start doing the same. It’s really not that hard once you get started.
My concern is that dumb stunts like this will actually make it harder. I doubt they are just going to change it back. More likely they’ll just stop taking feedback if it’s truly making things difficult for them.
Yeah, my impression was that it was more about contributing to a statement of some kind than actually expecting this feedback alone would cause Google to change it back.
I can see how there could be worry over some people thinking this is all it takes, and considering their resisting achieved after just one token action instead of going on to do other stuff as well.
Stay strong my long-necked ally, let’s all build one another up!
Right, exactly. It seemed strange to see people acting as if spending 15 seconds of idle time on one’s phone to do a goofy little “resistance” act described in the original post was somehow actively harming any kind of meaningful resistance. I wondered if there was some quick and easy yet somehow far more effective action I could have taken during those few moments.
I’ve de-googled, forsaken Amazon, embraced Linux and open source free software (rather than apple/Microsoft etc.), tried to be aware of bad companies like Nestlé and not buy their stuff, stood with signs, protested, pestered politicians, done my best to stir up unrest against the ridiculously awful things going on. I’m hoping to find more I can do, I am by no means an expert at this stuff, I’m learning as I go. But I think I’ll still also have the time to do derpy little things like nag Google with feedback while sitting on the can browsing Lemmy.
Good on ya. Hopefully we can get others to start doing the same. It’s really not that hard once you get started.
My concern is that dumb stunts like this will actually make it harder. I doubt they are just going to change it back. More likely they’ll just stop taking feedback if it’s truly making things difficult for them.
Yeah, my impression was that it was more about contributing to a statement of some kind than actually expecting this feedback alone would cause Google to change it back.
I can see how there could be worry over some people thinking this is all it takes, and considering their resisting achieved after just one token action instead of going on to do other stuff as well.
Stay strong my long-necked ally, let’s all build one another up!