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Protesting needs to evolve (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by BigTrout75@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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Protesting with a sign and snarky message doesn't do much. Everyone agreeing to do one simple (non violent) thing would work much better. It has to be just one thing though. The "don't buy anything" day is ineffective and confusing.

"No kings" day should be more like "No Kings & uninstall Twitter/X" day. At rallies, people could give advice on how to delete their accounts on that platform.

Then at the next rally, it's cancel Amazon Prime.

Snarky signs still welcome of course.

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

  1. I think protests work(not the sign carrying ones), and are constantly evolving.

  2. This "No Kings" day was a rally at best.

  3. You need to be clear about what you're protesting against, put forth actionable demands and threaten some action if the demands are not met.

I remember being part of the Reddit API protest, where we protested the new policy by logging off our accounts, closing hundreds of subreddits for 2 days. Some of them had millions of subscribers. We asked Reddit to withdraw its new API policy and threatened to leave Reddit if they didn't change the policy. They didn't, and many of us who did the 2 day blackout followed through. We mass deleted our accounts and many of us migrated here, to the fediverse. Reddit does remain, but it has lost many people who built and maintained the community.