cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/249411

A lad told me today that he'll make a facebook account just to connect with me, gave me the address of the place he's couch surfing at and told me to come over anytime. He said "because you treat me like a human."

😢

I've gotten in trouble at a few jobs for talking with poor people rather than just shuffling them through.

It helps that I have to walk through the hood frequently.

more info: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2021/9/30/push-the-global-housing-crisis

BTW do we have any subs about fediverse/lemmy/privacy promotion?

Change wifi name to x

Chalk ads on sidewalks

Set up a free public booth and hand out food samples and pamphlets

Make song/art about fediverse

Cold emailing celebrities about x

x related shirt

Yelp reviews that are mostly positive and that "it would be nice if they had x"

holiday greeting cards

In bookstores, put privacy books in more relevant spots

When eating out, ask about their social medias, recommend x

Bumper sticker or paper printout inside of car with links

Facebook status, if have a fb

I used to live in a city with a big university library I went to often. Sometimes I left notes or hints in books I liked. Maybe one could leave a list of local instances or a pamphlet about how one can and should host their own in some admin or linux books.

Posters

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Cross posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/73589

I've noticed that activists (or just people who care about any public issue, even if they are not very active about it) fall into three categories.

1. Individualist people. They want to make personal choices to change their personal impact on the world. Many strongly oppose taking political action at all. People who just avoid buying meat or petrol cars or nestle or products from occupied palestine etc. That is their way of making a difference.
2. Social people. They are interested in the local/community level. They organise swap-meets, do bicycle repair workshops, they work together on allotments, they volunteer at charities.
3. Political people. They want to make national or global changes. They go to protests, write to politicians, vote in elections.

Of course most people do a bit of all three. But everyone seems to be really focused on only one of them.

I will argue that #1 is three things:

1. Ineffective.
2. Counter-productive.
3. Self-defeating.

Ineffective

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** The problem **

Everybody wants to improve the world but we are all divided. Some are interested in global warming, farming practices, modern slavery, mass extinction, abuse of political power, inequality of wealth, inequality of rights, etc, etc … even though most people agree that these are all very important and need addressing. Most people will even agree on what steps need to be taken.

But nobody has the energy, time or money to be active, or even interested in everything.

So we each pick a campaign. We are divided into small groups with little power.

** The idea **

Even when there is a large group of activists focused on one issue, we always disagree about the details (because there are always many small contentious choices) so we again become divided.

The business interests which oppose us are united and organised. Then nearly always win. We need to be more like them.

** The solution **

I propose an activist group with no particular cause. Its work will be divided into