Is news really activism? Will this place be the change u wanna cause?
Is news really activism? Will this place be the change u wanna cause?
Yeah I get it, everything fucking sucks and sometimes we get a win. I've been here for 30 minutes tops and I can't remember half of the headlines I've read, can you? There's like no engagement on any of the posts here and there's probably a dozen aggregators that post the same shit you're looking at.
Shit that was written to nickel and dime you somehow, or lower down the food chain in an academic format for people actually paid to solve problems.
Leave the articles to the climate scientists and policy makers: This instance needs a place for people who get shit done, people who wanna change themselves and their immediate communities. We don't have enough of that, anywhere.
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What do you want that to look like?
I agree that what you propose in abstract would be a good thing! How do we do it?
Would you like to see people posting pictures and stories of ways that they have mitigated the climate impacts of their own lives? Kind of like /r/zerowaste? This would be cool and good! But real change comes not at the individual level, it comes from organizing communities at the local level.
Maybe you’d like to see more of that local-level organizing happening here? Well, this isn’t a local community. Where and how could such a disparate group of individuals make meaningful change?
Perhaps you’d like to see a meeting space where local groups communicate and coordinate larger-scale action? Cool! However, we kind of need local groups to get organized before that’s really possible. Don’t forget that organizing in a public and easily-scrapable space makes it easy for those we are organizing against to know our plans and work to counter them. However, having an easily accessible public face for people to get started and involved is also important!
Lemmy is a website for sharing and discussing news and memes. If there are ideas you want to spread or need you want to share, do it here. If you think that people are approaching a problem wrong, make a meme pointing it out. If you want to spread an interesting perspective, share it here for discussion. If you are looking for political action or to make meaningful change, find allies in your local community.
Lemmy is a place for ideas, not action. If you want action, find some comrades.
Once you have a local group taking action and making changes, share it here to inspire and support others doing the same.