[idlewords]

This strike does not seem very well thought through.

In an action of this kind, you want to demonstrate organization, capacity, and that you have real numbers behind you. Having people silently not use the internet on a major U.S. holiday achieves none of that.

If the goal is to get people to share the hashtag, then that should be the focus of the action.

A failed strike is much worse than not striking at all. But frankly, this seems more like a vanity effort than a serious attempt at change.

[dmix]

Sounds like competiting versions of slacktivism to me.

[idlewords]

Slacktivism is a word people even lazier than the slacktivists use to describe small attempts at change. As a lazy guy myself, I'd lift my glass to you if it wasn't all the way over there.

[dmix]

Sorry the idea about being another person acting outraged on Twitter about something makes me cringe.

I'd rather spend my time building decentralized alternatives to those products. Which is what I'm doing in my spare time.

We, the developers and startup peoples, are the ones who can do something real about it.