Resist: It's Time

I’m a long time reader of certain USA tech websites. These sites are still posting links to twitter and flogging anazon affiliate links.

Call them out for pretending everything is fine. Encourage them to mention alternatives.

If enough people do this, and if only one of them mentions and alternative if will bring more people to the Fediverse which will make future physical organising safer, more secure and less prone to centralised censorship.

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I have been a reader of yours for over two decades.

I know this will come off as a bit of a controversial message. Your country is under attack from the inside. The company that is at the basis for your existence it’s aiding and abetting this attack.

Today I read Apple are now hiding the amount of hdd space their stupid Apple Intelligence feature is using on a Mac. This is not normal. This is not Apple. Something has changed. You are part of the fourth estate. You have a readership of a whole bunch of soda slurping kids that don’t know anything about fascism. But being silent is being complicit.

I know capitalism blah blah blah and I know advertisers blah blah blah and I know don’t question the hand that feeds you blah blah blah. And I know most importantly, how increasingly right wing your American readers have been over the years. 

There are multiple subtle ways where you don’t have to openly call your current government fascist even though there are photos of Nazi salutes, and you can still support civil action.

Stop posting links to Twitter. If you must refer to Twitter content refer to a mirror that does not send ad revenue to the shadow president.

Post regular articles showing there are alternatives to meta products, alphabet products, Reddit and any older centralised billionaire crap that is actively promoting extreme right wing ideology.

Talk more about the Fediverse. Question why that word is still red underlined in Apple software.

Don’t shy away from promoting buy in Europe movements. Be supportive of your Canadian friends.

Please for the love of everything in the world grow a spine, don’t be fascism enablers. Stop using and promoting their centralised products.

Feel free to ignore this message, but know that the young men of Europe Canada and the rest of the world are not going to come and fight on your beaches.

Help the silent revolution.