New Communities @lemmy.world pineapplefriedrice @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

c/protest: A place for Lemmy users to organize protests and boycotts

My vision for this community is a space where people can encourage others to vote with their dollar and with their feet by educating them on the fucked up shit that people and companies are doing. When the community reaches 500 members, mods will also select one "cause" at a time for the community to support.

If this sub grows it will need more mods, so please reach out if you're a perpetually pissed off person. :)

Thanks for joining!

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Great idea. Can you create a community rule that saying shit like “it won’t make any difference” is an instaban?
- Sure, I'll add that.
- Even though it usually doesn't make a difference, I'd agree because it's the whole point of the community.
  
  That’s a huge generalization from someone who’s enjoying many of the benefits brought about by activism.
  
  It usually doesn’t result in the immediate attainment of all the protests’ aims. It quite often makes some kind of difference
- @scarabic you folks go and have fun. but fyi discouraging thinking about whether this particular action will have any effect even in the ballpark of the goal will pretty much ensure whatever you are doing won't make a difference.
  
  enjoy your masturbation
  
  @pineapplefriedrice
  
  I might reply to your point if you hadn’t gone totally vulgar at the end just to be a dick.
  
  I always enjoy my masturbation. You don’t?
There's some sticky posts for this community - on the importance of initially populating a community, and providing links (I've no idea where 'protest' is hosted)
- The community appears to be hosted here, on Lemmy.world. The link being !protest@lemmy.world (I think)
  
  But yes, OP does not seem to follow the rules of this community, and I find it mildly amusing that you are being down voted for pointing it out.
  
  Thanks for posting the link!
  
  Oh right, I tried that - I was going to put a link in my comment, not just complain - but it didn't work, so I assumed it must be elsewhere. But now I've clicked on your link a few times, it shows up. Thanks.
- Thanks, I'm aware. There's a couple of links in the post already.
Protests are often tied to a geographical area. Is it for protests in Sri Lanka, Israel and New Zealand too?
- This is primarily meant for people to organize themselves online. Local networks already exist and those are the channels through which protests have traditionally gone. Organizing the internet tends to be a bit messier, but when it works it's usually via several "hubs" (think fucknestle, save3rdpartyapps, etc.).
  
  Local networks already exist and those are the channels through which protests have traditionally gone
  
  I'm sorry, I don't understand the purpose of the community you're trying to assemble if local groups already exist for this.

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