Makeshift

The point is, they are fueled by money. That money comes from people who demand what they offer. If they don't profit from the demand, they're not going to keep supplying.

Every purchase we all make came from somewhere. Researching every little detail of everything we buy is mentally taxing and just not feasible, and most people depend on products that are unethically produced. Often times alternatives are unfeasible or inconvenient, so we accept the unethical things in exchange for our personal needs/wants.

We are ALL the problem. Yes, corporations are a big problem. So are the people who buy what they sell. It's easy to do absolutely nothing and blame someone else. It's hard to accept being a part of the machine and not only advocate for others to help change, but also change oneself.

Change needs to come from ALL directions. It will not come if people just cry about evil CEOs while said evil CEOs are still making bank off of the very same people that are crying. They're still getting the only thing they actually care about from the exchange. Profit.

Both are responsible.

Corporations are not people but they are made of people. People who will do whatever it takes to make profit, which means meeting demand.

Demand is created by consumers. Without people willing to pay the corporations that do terrible things to meet their demand, the terrible things would cease to be profitable.

Both are responsible. Corporations will not stop doing bad things if bad things bring more profit. That’s why it’s on consumers to be more mindful of what bad things they are financially supporting.

The action is taken by the big guys but only because millions of little guys are paying them to do it. They don’t need to care about taking the blame if doing so still rewards them with profit.

Yes, but it was the one to have an encore.

Doesn’t even need to be place specifically. I mentioned both because they were neat little random community events that only had meaning because users enjoyed making meaning of them.

It’s still a fond little memory to call myself a non-presser, even if it means nothing. And to see the chaos of the original canvas, immortalized in one big glorious mess with each small area having a story to it.

The short lived little social experiments were fun just to see people enjoying making something of nothing.

I thought I would, but I ended up just watching the Never Forget group on discord and just… not.

Feels kinda sad. Place was actually a fun little yearly event. TheButton was fun in its own odd way, too.

I will miss enjoying those. I did enjoy reddit. I wouldn’t be on lemmy now if I didn’t.

I’d argue you still can get that dopamine hit.

Even if the numbers don’t carry elsewhere in a meaningful way, seeing the high positive number next to your post still means that other people agreed with/liked what you said on that particular post/comment. And that alone can give a mild dopamine hit.

Less useful for bots trying to farm rep for nefarious reasons, more useful for real people who can feel the joy of a moment.

Mostly Voyager for me because it’s almost a 1:1 clone of what I know and love.

But I have Memmy installed too and sometimes use that instead with no particular rhyme or reason.

Factory worker. Not tech illiterate but also not exactly an expert in any respect.

Have been abnormal though, Internet-wise. I only have a twitter to post crap from Switch to lazily import screenshots to computer. When Facebook asked for my real name I said fuck you and never looked back.

Reddit was the only social media that I actually used as social media.

The fact that they thought /r/place was a good idea when everyone is angry at them.

The whole board could become “Fuck Spez”.

My only nsfw complaint so far is I don’t know how to allowlist some instead of blocklist all.

I’d prefer the option to find ones I’m okay with and seeing those few in my feed than have to have ALL on and block them one by one.

If that’s an option I am not yet aware of the how.

Hm. Good question, and I can’t say I have a great answer.

I like the starfish one too, the ocean one is just better for my mindset.

I guess accountability? The starfish story appeals more to personal ego (not using the term ego as a bad thing here), where as the ocean one feels more like accountability to me.

Starfish is saying that the little thing you do can help someone, even if it doesn’t solve the problem. Ocean one is saying that everyone is responsible, even if only a tiny bit in the grand scheme.

I kind of pair it with a mindset of if every drop thinks that they don’t make a difference, that adds up. One person can’t save the planet, but every person thinking they can’t save the planet means that you have that ocean of people all thinking that they don’t matter. And that’s a big problem.

Like I said, probably not the best answer. Just rambling what came to mind.

Paraphrased probably, but:

“What is an ocean but a thousand drops?”

It’s a really good way to get rid of the mentality of one person can’t make a difference. Because everyone is a drop, and without so many drops, there is no ocean. Maybe one individual drop doesn’t truly make a difference alone. But what if every drop was gone?

It helps me feel that, even if the difference I make isn’t big enough to make an impact, an impact only exists BECAUSE of all the drops.

That goes for both positive and negative things. A thousand bad drops are needed to make a bad thing. A thousand good drops to make a good one.

What they are farming in all that land is feed for livestock.

So yes, even though they’re growing plants there, those plants are being grown to feed the animals instead of feeding humans directly. Which thanks to trophic levels is a massive waste.

The amount of feed needed to rear one animal to kill for food is not even CLOSE to equivalent to how much we would get if we didn’t add the extra step in of feeding animals and just grew plants for ourselves instead.

The meat industry is a massive contributor to global warming, and we could drastically reduce our effects on climate change if we just stopped eating animals.