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blackouttripleseven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

the reddit thing failed bc the blackout had an end date, so this will fail too

if yall want to make a noticeable impact then stop using playstation (or sony) services until they revert their decision

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I thought that was the stupidest thing, the Reddit “blackout”. Company doesn’t care. It’s a metric. It’s a line on a graph. When stakeholders ask they’ll point to it and say “This was are anticipated backlash from the Q2 decision to ban 3rd party APIs, but as you can see we already recovered and have grown at our normal pace.”

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Bazimon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I do want to give some insight. The reddit blackout did work technically. At least for me. I left reddit during the blackout and joined lemmy. Found it a lot better and remained. Letting people get a taste for not bootlicking a corp during a blackout is a small way to kick start a change.

Sure it might not get measurable change in the way the shareholders would change their mind, but every little discression against major corporations is a step in the right direction and I don’t think the people ITT should be shitting on people for trying to retaliate against Sony, albeit for a short time.

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- njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Good point. People are right that a week is unlikely to change much and we should set our sights higher. That said, you are also right that if we approach it with a “this is pointless and will fail” attitude, then no one tries the alternatives at all and the conditions that eventually lead to change will never develop. Best to participate, encourage your IRL friends to participate, and spend the whole week telling everyone who will listen about it.
  
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- rursta@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  How do people get a taste of strikes and boycotts in the middle of summer?
  
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