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That’s the winner (Elijah Johnson) of the contest art organized by Reddit’s former CEO Yishan Wong.

Here’s the article: https://medium.com/@yishan/solarpunk-art-contest-2025-7fa29f1bd5b9

slrpnk.net doesn’t require an email, makes it optional in case you want it for password recovery. And as far as I know it doesn’t have the restrictions you mention.

Their marketing strategy isn’t just blaming the consumer, it is to sell that their product is “sustainable and green”, and people instead of not buying, they buy their “sustainable and green” product that shouldn’t even exist in the first place. So no, they are not wasting money on marketing, they just changed the strategy.

Coming back to people, have you tried convince someone to change their preferred message app even knowing that belongs to an evil company and making the change being a literal 5 minute task?

In my experience people aren’t even trying. Just blaming the same way companies and politicians do. If we really tried our best many things would have changed already. I believe that everything we have now is just a mirror of our collective greed, and we are doomed if we expect the other (companies and politicians) to change anything.

We may have to just accept that it won’t ever be a big platform for this very reason and just have fun there as a niche site.

Yes at this point I think I can agree with all you are saying and I don’t feel there is anything I can add. Actually the symptom of a lack of a social need being met is something you gave me to think about.

Thank you for debate, have a nice day :)

First of all thanks for the correction, English is not my first language, I appreciate it.

So… Yesterday in my country in a local forum someone asked regarding the tariffs, what should we do? Are we going to boycott the US? The general consensus more or less was that yes, that’s what we should do. Then the excuses arrived, but I’m not going to give up Amazon, nor Google, nor Meta, how am I going to give up this or that? Then other person gave them good alternatives and he was totally ignored. I didn’t feel that this was a social need, more like convenience, laziness and apathy. I mean, yeah I can kind of agree with you, there are some things I can’t give up exactly because a social need, if I give up one service I get isolated, and yeah when I get depressed I eat sweets when I shouldn’t… But what about the rest?

Anyway I am no one to tell you how you should live, nor I do have the absolute truth whatever that is, all I am saying is that if we buy into the bullshit (not a little, I wish it was just a little) then bullshit is what we have, and yeah we can bitch all you want about the bullshit we are in, we change or nothing will change. What did you mean when you said “change from within”? Isn’t exactly what I am talking about?

And to be honest I didn’t understand what you meant by this social need. Do we really need to buy all the services the rich offer us as a bait to be happy and content? I am aware that we have some needs to function in society, I’m using them all the time, but I couldn’t use it as an excuse to the extreme bullshit we are in, my colleagues in my last job complained all the time about the stress and long hours in the job and then they spent all their money in “stuff”. Is this the social need? They could work in a low stress job for less money if they didn’t spend so much money in Amazon for things that nobody really needs. But instead they were working harder to get more money to get more stuff to buy, it was madness from my point of view not a social need.

I don’t know that’s why I asked first but they responded with a meme instead.

But I was talking more in general and not about him or her specifically, I’m starting to get tired about the “billionaires this and billionaires that” while posting it in an iPhone 19 and browsing amazon next for the next rubbish to buy, many people do this.

I just wish we could talk about how we really got in this mess collectively instead of blaming because no one is free of blame (not even myself obviously), we can only fix our mistakes if we start by accepting them.

My problems are because the rich. *

Yet you give them literally all your money and time. And will keep doing it *

You are not talking about improving society, you are just blaming.

And who support rich people? Where do you spend your money?