Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm?

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• MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No just send me the money I won’t spend it.

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  • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can trust a name like Mantis Toboggon.

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• squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are some, but they don’t seem particularly active https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=anticonsum

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like there’s three types of buy nothing:

  1. buy it for life - people looking to reduce consumerism by purchasing high quality, long lasting items that aren’t engineered to have limited lifespans. See lemmy.world/c/buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works

  2. second hand trading groups - people who want to reduce consumerism by creating vibrant second hand marketplaces and encouraging selling, trading, and donating of old goods. Lemmy is the wrong format for this, these groups tend to exist in geographically focused platforms like Facebook and Kijiji.

  3. true die-hard anti consumerists - want to never buy anything, including any items that are remotely consumable. Hard to find these communities as these people tend to head off grid, and / or self implode.

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Buy nothing communities work best in localized areas I think, for practical reasons. Not sure if a general community would work with users all around the world.

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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you for this. I may make a local one.

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• biotin7@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ummm does illegalism count ?

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• AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone else already mentioned, !anticonsumption@slrpnk.net is a good bet, but it’s still not as active as other communities.

  I’d suggest also looking into:
  - !zerowaste@slrpnk.net / !zerowaste@lemmy.ml / !zerowaste@europe.pub
  - !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net / !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works / !buyitforlife@europe.pub / !buyitforlife@discuss.tchncs.de / !buyitforlife@lemmy.world
  - !degrowth@slrpnk.net / !degrowth@feddit.nl / !degrowth@europe.pub
  - !fixing@slrpnk.net

  As all of those are frequently intertwined with the movements to either buy nothing, or reduce how much you absolutely need to buy in the first place.

  For something outside Lemmy, if you haven’t already I’d suggest checking out the group aptly named the Buy Nothing Project, as they’re an incredible resource if you want to find things in your community others are willing to give away, or want an easy way to give away things you no longer need that doesn’t require having a yard sale style table setup or coordinating giveaways through Facebook posts. (*though they do have Facebook groups for different areas for those who don’t want to use their app*)

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• nostrauxendar@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, but that sounds really interesting. I’ve long been frustrated by rampant consumerism, and not just that but also by how blatantly companies will shaft consumers on quality, size, functionality… A laundry list of ways to make their products worse because it nets them a tiny saving per product which all adds up to a new megayacht. Nickle and diming bastards!

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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Enshitification is everywhere.

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• InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  lemmy.world/c/reuse

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• danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably the piracy community is your best bet

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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s good and I’m not opposed piracy but buy nothing ideology goes into other areas as well.

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    • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      c/Kleptomania

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• manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is a frugal community, which is close. If you build a Buy nothing community I’ll join in.

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• dontsayaword@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dunno but if you start one I’ll join

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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This looks promising:

    slrpnk.net/c/anticonsumption

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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll keep you posted.

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• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought that was r/dig-a-hole-and-die-in-it?

  Be sure to put the “free shovel & dirt” post it on the shovel before you disturb the walls of your internment garden… pockets full of seeds, etc.

  FFS: This is a 1000% sarcastic comment… no I don’t think it’s funny, etc.

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