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Ask famous people to get off Meta (piefed.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by motionofethre@piefed.social to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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I'm watching the Macklemore thing and the cynic in me feels like it's all virtue signaling and for show. I guess I have near zero confidence in the rich.

Part of my belief is all of the rage porn goes on twitter/meta and funds the billionaires which just furthers the cycle.

Do you think writing to some of these artists and asking then to leave Meta/Twitter for Mastodon would work? Could a difference actually be made?

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[-] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm afraid it's not just celebrities. It's all of us. We're complicit because we are relatively quiet, apart from moaning a bit online (which is exactly where they want us to complain because it achieves nothing).

People on the actual street complaining about their taxes being spent on murder and genocide maybe, and celebrities marching side by side. This used to be a thing: big in person protests. By giving us the internet to 'speak up' they effectively silenced us all and made us easier to ignore.

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