Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

vote with your fists

So, hypothetically, you could say "we'll all move from Amazon! We'll move our stores, be customers in other places!"

But be real: could you? Could you afford it? Like, sure, if you're small enough, you can take the hit and go to someplace like Ebay or Redbubble, but you will suffer for it.

You've probably thought about the fact that you still use Amazon because it's affordable, and felt bad, right?
Unfortunately, that's kind of the key here: you can't practically afford to go elsewhere.

Each inch these companies make towards being a more convenient part of your life, is an inch towards being unstoppable, because they're so big, our lives wind up changing in such a way that we need these conveniences. I think that's a thread in and of itself, but if this seems like a weird sentiment, consider the most blatant example: how badly you need a smartphone to function in society anymore.

Even Wal-Mart feels too expensive to use, now.

So let's go back to the idea of moving elsewhere. Do you think it's actually possible to take your small, ethical business and rival Amazon? Hell no. Of course you can't.
Because we are so beyond the concept of an actual free market, that we take these monopolies for granted.

We need to focus our attention on multiple governments. This needs to be a United Nations issues, and I'm totally not kidding about this, and I'm not excepting Youtube. We need fair play, not small changes to Terms & Agreements.

Think about this: your favorite video creator - could they make videos elsewhere and still survive? Do you think this would still apply if YouTube never existed?

We need to be breathing down the necks of nations on this, not the companies.

Y'all, I support the Youtube boycott (we're calling it a strike? seems like a boycott), to be clear.

HOWEVER

I don't feel this is the way to enact change anymore. We need to be directing our attention to various governments.

We're living in an age of monopolies and gigantic corporations. They're ubiquitous around the world, and as such, don't really need the public to approve of them. There's no possible way we can make a big enough dent to actually be a threat. We can show our anger, but we can't really be a threat. And we need to be a threat.

On December 14th, we'll be returning to Youtube. There's no question of it. I'm gonna pivot to Amazon here since it's the grandaddy of this monopoly problem, but youtube totally applies.

Integration is anti-differentiation, so when a derivative and an integral come together, they annihilate to produce a photon.

An actual protest at YouTube Headquarters would have been more meaningful. At least that might have made the news.

As is there's no coordination here. No organizing. There's no site for information, no nothing beyond "don't go on Youtube these days". It's just impromptu.

A picket line is a thing you physically have to cross. A picket is something that people put up, and plan. There are signs, there's information.

This is a haphazard mess against a monopoly, and when it fails people are going to just go "aww shucks".

And I'm seeing a lot of people say that "you're a scab if you watch YouTube", but YouTube has become a ubiquitous part of our lives at this point, especially if we're clicking on links on Twitter, and this protest sprang up practically overnight with no warning.

#YouTubeIsOverParty, if the tag even is related to the boycott, is poorly thought out and poorly planned. It's trending now a 23.7K tweets.
It should have been trending a month ago.

I found out because the tail end of a video basically said "don't go on YouTube yesterday".

Don't try to fix yourself, fix your toxic patterns.

It'd look something... like this!

This is just an attempt by Twitter to execute on EEE: Embrace the technology, Extend it, then Extinguish it. And he wants to do this because he wants to stop the haemorrhaging of users from Twitter to Fediverse instances. His plan is pretty transparent -- give users the *ILLUSION* of supporting multiple, federated instances. You can bet, though, the money and control will all flow towards him.

Don't give Jack the time of day. He doesn't deserve the benefit of your genius.