Starve Big Tech of your attention on 27th November - don’t use any of their apps.
Sign up at this tracker to contribute to showing the number of hours withheld 😊
The strike is organised by Take Back Big Tech, and this tracker page was made by Pull The Plug.
PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT STILL USE BIG TECH APPS 😃
Alright, I’ve got about a 6 year head start. Let’s get em.
I appreciate the idea, but this “Attention Strike” for a single day will have clearly insignificant impact on tech services. It’s like expecting a 4 hours long national protest to do any damage on the economy. I already don’t use social media at all most of the days.
For an impact to be present it should last at least for a month. Not so hard to put in place, there are lots of people already doing some form of absteinance on november for no reason, there is pride month, there is christmas month, just need to tell em to reduce/stop using social media for this month (eg. November)
It’s by reducing their daily usage of social media for a month that people will understand they can keep this routine even out of that month, and thus reducing effectively their revenue for the companies.
a month would be a big ask for fully addicted mainstream types. this is a baby steps thing - people in this community will be way beyond this. The idea is to share it with your friends and family who are not there yet.
this sounds like the american farce from not long ago where they wouldn’t buy from Wallmart for a whole day to topple the regime.
Viva la revolucion!
or, burn their headquarters to the ground
a different kind of stike 😂
Talk about doing the bare minimum! That’ll show em! I literally haven’t used corporate social media since 2016. Ask big tech about how much I’m hurting their bottom line.
lol - yes, people in this community will be way beyond this. The idea is to share it with your friends and family who are not there yet.
please share it with your friends and family who are not so on the case with this kind of stuff. This strike is aimed at the mainstream.
One days starvation won’t even show up their monthly analytics
Not to be a mood killer, but most of us are here because we didn’t like what Reddit was turning it to. Especially and personally since 2023 where they started charging for their API use. This was not a 24 hour pause, or insignificant symbolic action. This is people actively leaving the platform. Yet their active user count has risen ever since
User count ≠ users
User accounts are just shitty bots.
I don’t understand how that many more people are using reddit every month. It has to be mostly bots.
I read the other day that Reddit usage is decreasing. No great surprise that increased bots = a shittier experience and people using it less.
Reddit is not actually in scope for the strike (more detail here https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/collectiveaction.html#attention-strike ) but i see what you mean.
Sure, people in this community will be way beyond this. The idea is to share it with your friends and family who are not there yet. I’ll tell Take Back Big Tech that the next strike would need to be much more significant. This one is supposed to get people used to the idea, and to try alternatives.
Can we get a list of what counts as “Big Tech?” Lemmy is already my only social media and I don’t use any messengers outside of Signal and Simplex. Are we talking classical Silicon Valley (FAANG)? Chromium browsers? Anything at all on an iPhone or Android? What about game platforms?
This is so vague.
yes it’s the main american ones. We’ve listed the specific ones on our site (and linked to Take Back Big Tech’s site): https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/collectiveaction.html#attention-strike
I’d like to know too. I bet most Lemmy users are here because we got sick of Reddit, which I consider part of big tech. I’ll participate in this strike as much as I can, but not because I saw this post, it’s just how I want to live my life. I think a lot of Lemmy users share similar goals, so this post may be preaching to the choir, and if it’s not, a 1 day strike on “big tech” won’t show results.
I don’t use any of their apps normally… except Google maps (cause of family location sharing). I’ll stop that for a day
and please share the link with friends and family still trapped in the big tech trap.
Why not just do it now?
all at once on a single day is easier to organise and more impact will be shown - it’s more concentrated. But yes, obviously long term everyone has to permanently come off the
drugsapps permanently.
Sometimes I still watch youtube on my TV because it’s doomed as a shared family resource anyways. I could just not that day and play games offline.
Now, I’m no mathematician, but what is going on with their math? If you’re asking people to give it up for 24 hours, why minimize the reclaimed hours by only counting 4 per person?
“That’s reclaiming 312 hours from big tech’s control. If 1000 people signed up, we could save 24,000 hours.”
