Maybe, but I think it really boils down to convenience and ease of use. People will stick around until the pain of moving to a new platform is less than the pain of staying there.
I think you’re preaching to the choir though. Most people on Lemmy aren’t here because its got the best memes OE anything. It just sucks when it seems like almost everyone in your life shrugs at doing the right thing because it is inconvenient.
Yeah, I agree. Like I said with the first one though, I think it’s relevant to those people who choose not to support their friends, not so much us here.
“It’s one more app” was the answer I got with signal. “I don’t want one more app.” Not an hour later we talked about how they had just downloaded like 4 different airline apps. But one app for me was too much?
Literally this whenever I mention what Discord has been caught with.
My friend reached out to some people I used to know on Discord now that it’s AI and age verification is finally fully active, and the response he got was “I know, but, I didn’t notice any change”.
This comic is referring to holding positions in political context where there is an active genocide being perpetrated by the US on 2 fronts both in Gaza and at home via ICE detention centers. Comparing it to people who are struggling to find a rellacement for a chat app because of age verification is either a gross misue of your ability to comprehend analogy, or you really see consumption on par with mass violence and terrorism.
If you can’t recognize the similarity, or how consumption and individualism enables mass violence and terrorism because someone remains unaffected, maybe you should reassess your worldview.
Everything exists in a context. And I don’t think anyone except for you thinks I’m equating consumerism and genocide. I am drawing a parallel. Scale and impact are entirely separate things.
Please don’t try and force a narrative onto me. Look up diffusion of responsibility and scope insensitivity to see what I’m pointing to here.
Jesus christ then yeah you really aren’t interested in any of the things you claim. You realize there is NO ethical consumption under capitalism right? That means there is NO right choice. You do what you can with ehat you have available. If you want to only consume the things that produce exactly zero or less net harm in society you’re gonna have to start drinking your own filtered piss. Now because I understand analogy I can say you are basically already doing that.
And leaning on upvotes are a great way to reveal that you were polling from the get go and only assuming what you said might hit. What if you got downvoted because you were in a different community that was getting a different point across? I now just don’t think you actually have a point you’re just agitating because it’s the popular move
The upvotes I couldn’t care less about lol. I just used it to show that others appear to recognize what I’m saying. It did open me up to being a “polling data farming agitator” I guess, on a niche platform to boot, but 🤷
But “no ethical consumption under capitalism” helps me more than it helps you. That phrase exists to say systemic complicity shouldn’t paralyze people into doing nothing, not that individual and collective choices carry zero weight. If choices genuinely didn’t matter, boycotts wouldn’t be a thing worth having opinions about, companies wouldn’t spend money on PR to avoid them, and states wouldn’t pass anti-BDS legislation to head them off. Discord rolled back their verification push after backlash. They added the credit card mechanism because of it too, their words, not mine. Public pressure, people being active, brought a material outcome that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. You and I wouldn’t be conversing if people didn’t give a shit because there’s no ethical consumption and, according to you, it therefore wouldn’t matter.
So which is it? Either collective consumer/user pressure can move outcomes, in which case individual participation isn’t irrelevant and the mechanism I described (aware, unaffected, therefore inactive) is worth naming when you see it. Or it can’t, in which case the Discord rollback you’d have to explain away didn’t happen for the reason it obviously did.
Naming the mechanism doesn’t mean every instance of it carries equal weight, and I take the point that reaching for the heaviest possible comparison isn’t necessary to make it. But dismissing the mechanism itself with “no ethical consumption, so nothing you do matters” is just a thought-terminating cliche being used exactly backwards.
Hey first and foremost I think you’re a reasonable person and you took a step back in a lot of those points to prove it and I appreciate it.
I want to take a look at the whole throughline here though, someone made a claim that the problem you’re going to run into is large communities that either don’t have the means or the organization to relocate platforms. You posted the comic in response and then immediately came out swinging about how complicit consumption enables terrorism. Does this not seem entirely inappropriate to you? Aunt Tracey’s knitting group got together and had all of their niece’s show them how to use Discord, no one can explain FOSS hosting to them, now Al-Qaeda wins. If I’m being dramatic yes, but only as much as you are in response here.
I stopped paying for Nitro the first time this news came out. I haven’t reupped it. Discord is a miserable experience for me now and is an ugly app without the Nitro options. Doesn’t chanve the fact that the few communities I do belong to are still central to and maintained within the Discord environment. If they move I’ll move but some left infigthing jerk off session isn’t going to be what changes their mind.
My real point is I find anything that leads to further alienation is going to be the wrong choice, and that’s including, for lack of a better term, libjacketing people who don’t have a dog in the race one way or another. We’re all looking for a way out man.
Appreciate that, genuinely, and right back at you. This has been a better exchange than most on the internet lol.
On timing and targeting, I think that’s fair. Leading with that comic in response to “some communities genuinely can’t relocate” was dramatic on purpose, partly to see if it’d draw more than a shrug, and it did exactly that. I don’t think that makes it a good rhetorical choice in that specific spot. The Aunt Tracey case you and described isn’t who I’m actually aiming for, of course, and answering it with the heaviest available comparison muddies a point I still think is real underneath it.
Because I’m not walking back the mechanism itself. Aware, unaffected, therefore inactive shows up identically whether the stakes are a chat app or a policy vote, that’s not me being dramatic, that’s just how scope insensitivity works. But you’re right that treating “won’t switch platforms” as one bucket is its own kind of flattening. Just like Jewish people shouldn’t be treated as a monolith on Israel (exactly as Netanyahu and many others want), not everyone still on Discord is doing it out of laziness or tacit support for what the platform enables. Some are Aunt Tracey. Some have cancelled Nitro and are stuck on network effects they didn’t choose. Those aren’t the people I was actually aiming at, and lumping them in with genuine complacency is my bad. A bit of that twitter short-form limitation coming through lol.
The people I’m actually talking about are the ones who know exactly what’s wrong, have the means to leave, and just won’t be bothered. That’s a much smaller and more specific group than “everyone still on Discord,” and I should’ve said that the first time instead of making you drag it out of me.
For what it’s worth, I cancelled Nitro the first time this news broke too, and that’s what got me actually researching this instead of just being mad about it. I started building a homelab finally, part of which is a Discord alternative. I know not everyone has the hardware, time, or funding to do that themselves, which is exactly why I’m trying to build a bridge between the two, a frontend fork plus a bridge so people can message across both while a community migrates, so nobody feels cut off or left behind in the transition. It’s also why I’m trying to learn Nix flakes and documenting my process and thoughts so I can more easily share it with others who can benefit from my time put in. That’s the actual lever for the Aunt Tracey case, not arguing with strangers about it. FOSS is one of the better arguments I’ve got against the “individual action doesn’t matter”, people building real alternatives because they saw a problem, not because there’s money in it. And that’s what gives me a lot of hope today when we all need it more than ever. All the better if it takes a swing at the bottom line of big corpos, even more so the ones that fund genocide 😉
This feels relevant for those people
Maybe, but I think it really boils down to convenience and ease of use. People will stick around until the pain of moving to a new platform is less than the pain of staying there.
Yes. I agree. Lol.
Another one for you. Basically, it’s gas prices for the individualists:
I think you’re preaching to the choir though. Most people on Lemmy aren’t here because its got the best memes OE anything. It just sucks when it seems like almost everyone in your life shrugs at doing the right thing because it is inconvenient.
Yeah, I agree. Like I said with the first one though, I think it’s relevant to those people who choose not to support their friends, not so much us here.
“It’s one more app” was the answer I got with signal. “I don’t want one more app.” Not an hour later we talked about how they had just downloaded like 4 different airline apps. But one app for me was too much?
Literally this whenever I mention what Discord has been caught with.
My friend reached out to some people I used to know on Discord now that it’s AI and age verification is finally fully active, and the response he got was “I know, but, I didn’t notice any change”.
Not giving a shit is frequently the best option for the individual, and the individual is the only one that matters.
This comic is referring to holding positions in political context where there is an active genocide being perpetrated by the US on 2 fronts both in Gaza and at home via ICE detention centers. Comparing it to people who are struggling to find a rellacement for a chat app because of age verification is either a gross misue of your ability to comprehend analogy, or you really see consumption on par with mass violence and terrorism.
Maybe you need to sit this out for a bit.
Upvotes say otherwise friend.
If you can’t recognize the similarity, or how consumption and individualism enables mass violence and terrorism because someone remains unaffected, maybe you should reassess your worldview.
Everything exists in a context. And I don’t think anyone except for you thinks I’m equating consumerism and genocide. I am drawing a parallel. Scale and impact are entirely separate things.
Please don’t try and force a narrative onto me. Look up diffusion of responsibility and scope insensitivity to see what I’m pointing to here.
Jesus christ then yeah you really aren’t interested in any of the things you claim. You realize there is NO ethical consumption under capitalism right? That means there is NO right choice. You do what you can with ehat you have available. If you want to only consume the things that produce exactly zero or less net harm in society you’re gonna have to start drinking your own filtered piss. Now because I understand analogy I can say you are basically already doing that.
And leaning on upvotes are a great way to reveal that you were polling from the get go and only assuming what you said might hit. What if you got downvoted because you were in a different community that was getting a different point across? I now just don’t think you actually have a point you’re just agitating because it’s the popular move
The upvotes I couldn’t care less about lol. I just used it to show that others appear to recognize what I’m saying. It did open me up to being a “polling data farming agitator” I guess, on a niche platform to boot, but 🤷
But “no ethical consumption under capitalism” helps me more than it helps you. That phrase exists to say systemic complicity shouldn’t paralyze people into doing nothing, not that individual and collective choices carry zero weight. If choices genuinely didn’t matter, boycotts wouldn’t be a thing worth having opinions about, companies wouldn’t spend money on PR to avoid them, and states wouldn’t pass anti-BDS legislation to head them off. Discord rolled back their verification push after backlash. They added the credit card mechanism because of it too, their words, not mine. Public pressure, people being active, brought a material outcome that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. You and I wouldn’t be conversing if people didn’t give a shit because there’s no ethical consumption and, according to you, it therefore wouldn’t matter.
So which is it? Either collective consumer/user pressure can move outcomes, in which case individual participation isn’t irrelevant and the mechanism I described (aware, unaffected, therefore inactive) is worth naming when you see it. Or it can’t, in which case the Discord rollback you’d have to explain away didn’t happen for the reason it obviously did.
Naming the mechanism doesn’t mean every instance of it carries equal weight, and I take the point that reaching for the heaviest possible comparison isn’t necessary to make it. But dismissing the mechanism itself with “no ethical consumption, so nothing you do matters” is just a thought-terminating cliche being used exactly backwards.
Hey first and foremost I think you’re a reasonable person and you took a step back in a lot of those points to prove it and I appreciate it.
I want to take a look at the whole throughline here though, someone made a claim that the problem you’re going to run into is large communities that either don’t have the means or the organization to relocate platforms. You posted the comic in response and then immediately came out swinging about how complicit consumption enables terrorism. Does this not seem entirely inappropriate to you? Aunt Tracey’s knitting group got together and had all of their niece’s show them how to use Discord, no one can explain FOSS hosting to them, now Al-Qaeda wins. If I’m being dramatic yes, but only as much as you are in response here.
I stopped paying for Nitro the first time this news came out. I haven’t reupped it. Discord is a miserable experience for me now and is an ugly app without the Nitro options. Doesn’t chanve the fact that the few communities I do belong to are still central to and maintained within the Discord environment. If they move I’ll move but some left infigthing jerk off session isn’t going to be what changes their mind.
My real point is I find anything that leads to further alienation is going to be the wrong choice, and that’s including, for lack of a better term, libjacketing people who don’t have a dog in the race one way or another. We’re all looking for a way out man.
Appreciate that, genuinely, and right back at you. This has been a better exchange than most on the internet lol.
On timing and targeting, I think that’s fair. Leading with that comic in response to “some communities genuinely can’t relocate” was dramatic on purpose, partly to see if it’d draw more than a shrug, and it did exactly that. I don’t think that makes it a good rhetorical choice in that specific spot. The Aunt Tracey case you and described isn’t who I’m actually aiming for, of course, and answering it with the heaviest available comparison muddies a point I still think is real underneath it.
Because I’m not walking back the mechanism itself. Aware, unaffected, therefore inactive shows up identically whether the stakes are a chat app or a policy vote, that’s not me being dramatic, that’s just how scope insensitivity works. But you’re right that treating “won’t switch platforms” as one bucket is its own kind of flattening. Just like Jewish people shouldn’t be treated as a monolith on Israel (exactly as Netanyahu and many others want), not everyone still on Discord is doing it out of laziness or tacit support for what the platform enables. Some are Aunt Tracey. Some have cancelled Nitro and are stuck on network effects they didn’t choose. Those aren’t the people I was actually aiming at, and lumping them in with genuine complacency is my bad. A bit of that twitter short-form limitation coming through lol.
The people I’m actually talking about are the ones who know exactly what’s wrong, have the means to leave, and just won’t be bothered. That’s a much smaller and more specific group than “everyone still on Discord,” and I should’ve said that the first time instead of making you drag it out of me.
For what it’s worth, I cancelled Nitro the first time this news broke too, and that’s what got me actually researching this instead of just being mad about it. I started building a homelab finally, part of which is a Discord alternative. I know not everyone has the hardware, time, or funding to do that themselves, which is exactly why I’m trying to build a bridge between the two, a frontend fork plus a bridge so people can message across both while a community migrates, so nobody feels cut off or left behind in the transition. It’s also why I’m trying to learn Nix flakes and documenting my process and thoughts so I can more easily share it with others who can benefit from my time put in. That’s the actual lever for the Aunt Tracey case, not arguing with strangers about it. FOSS is one of the better arguments I’ve got against the “individual action doesn’t matter”, people building real alternatives because they saw a problem, not because there’s money in it. And that’s what gives me a lot of hope today when we all need it more than ever. All the better if it takes a swing at the bottom line of big corpos, even more so the ones that fund genocide 😉