Thanks writing it all out instead of making us watch the video.
For real! I hate to watch video media for things like this. I mean, I'm on Lemmy and not tiktok or YT for a reason...
The transcription with timestamps of the important taking points, chef's kiss.
Thanks op.
:) happy to help! I appreciate the appreciation
I don't mean to get off topic but effective synopsis of media is a massive value add. Making ideas cross platform AND cross media types is helpful, not detrimental. Advertisements are your enemy, not viewers.
When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippy's
Software engineers will do anything but unionize
This right here. Unions are a much more potent way to tell management "that anti-consumer idea is bullshit and we won't do it."
I've been tech conferencing all week and I've already seen two talks about unionizing tech workers. Maybe the tide is turning?
Honestly....yeah. I've been trying to push that boulder but I can't be the only one.
Very few people are willing to break rank because the system is working for them for now.
I don’t know if the answer is silent protest profile pics. I think a better solution is more people getting into self hosting and ditching big tech reliance.
How dare you, sir?
The solution is to complain for a couple of weeks about a platform ON that platform, get it out of your system, and let it fizzle out without making ANY kind of changes, because people generally have the attention span of a goldfish and commitment and follow-through of a dieter with a shopping cart full of ice cream.
Never, ever ask people to accept inconvenience to bring down a tech monopoly because "muh followers!!"
While I agree, self hosting is not an option for the average person.
I believe big tech must be forced to work for the consumer interests somehow.
One way could be introducing decentralised alternatives, that present a solid competition.
Uhhhh, that'll show them..?
Probably the biggest problem with this is that you need to read an absolute wall of text or watch a YouTube video to actually understand what's going on, something that the target audiences are unlikely to do, not to mention other issues like how ignorable it all is.
The target audience are we, the tech literate people who give a damn. It's then on us to propagate it further to those who are affected, but unaware. Build a critical mass and things will get rolling.
Truth!!
Fighting the global rise of fascism isn't for the lazy or whinge-prone. If you can't be bothered to read a single wall covered in writing (how ironic)... get the fuck out of the way, citizen.
"When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippy's looking back at them, what I hope occurs is that they intuitively understand that they no longer live in a world where they can get away with fucking over the consumer."
Ahh yes. The CEO sees the slactivists' avatars sand sighs loudly before turning their thoughts back to their yacht and upcoming golf vacation.
Yea this is some bonkers wishful thinking. This is basically the Jeremey Clarkson "oh no! Anyway..." meme
The CEO sees the clippys, starts crying and gives everyone a raise
Then everyone claps
It takes a special kind of wishful thinking to think that any CEO is UNAWARE that their customers hate them.
Not a single one thinks any of these decisions are well-received.
They do it because people keep turning RIGHT AROUND and spending their money and attention anyway.
It's a special kind of Stockholm Syndrome digital slavery because people can LITERALLY just walk away and choose not to.
I'll highjack this comment to add my opinion - I wasn't sure if it was appropriate for the main post.
I see the profile picture as performative (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). I don't want to fall into a habit of doing performative things and feeling like it's enough action. I also recognize Clippy is a flawed choice, as one of Microsoft's mascots and it's existence as a proto-AI assistant.
All of that said, I found the solidarity in the comment section of the original video comforting. So today, I will perform (and maybe spread just a little more awareness).
I don't see it just as a performance, but rather a way to find like-minded peopel and build a community that will eventually get things rolling in the right direction. Every movement needs some kind of criical mass to achieve something and a call to action -no matter how miniscule and benign - is a good way of setting things into motion.
Don't make me post pregnant clippy art.
pics or it didn’t happen
I CHOOSE "IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!"
I CHOOSE "IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!"
If there is something that calls for eyebleach, this is it.
Were these people too young in the early 2000s to recognize Clippy for what it was? It was never benign—ChatGPT is exactly what Microsoft always wanted to make, but Clippy was as close as it could get at the time. They are part and parcel of the same thing.
This is like protesting Trump with pictures of George W. Bush.
Fucking
The thought "well honesty Alberto Gonzalez as AG is like 10 steps up right now..." popped into my head and now I'm sad.
Never thought Donald Rumsfeld would be a step up from Whiskey Gate, but here we are.
I just… no thanks. Zero point to doing this as far as im concerned. Wish all participants the best of luck, however!
I concur - I agree with the sentiment, but this seems so... pointless. Remember the Reddit blackouts? Some people migrated to Lemmy but I doubt the number of new members ever increased in the same proportion as it did in those days, some horrible mods were sacked (like u/awkwardtheturtle from r/art) and some subs were closed by their mods, but Reddit just reinstantiated those subs to another admins (r/unexpected on the top of my head at the moment) and... shit's even worse than ever and they keep earning their profit as usual, if not even more. In the end the "protests" and blackouts did absolutely nothing for them.
I disagree, without the protests I would still be using Reddit. Just because it doesn't completely collapse the system doesn't mean it's been ineffective
Kinda bad example: the server you are posting on (lemmy.world) literally started during the time of the subreddit blackouts, and other servers' user count shot up 5x, 10x or more. It's likely the surge would be muted without it, and even if more than half left Lemmy and returned to Reddit, it was still the first time it could even be considered a competitor. Its a positive and concrete resulf that came of it.
I dunno what changing a profile pic can do, without more of a goal than, "get a CEO to look at clippys and think its funny". It would have a positive effect if it was even something small like telling people to change the profile and donate $1 to EFF.org
YouTubers doing YouTubers thing.
This comment section is full of god damn losers who enjoy losing, and want to use any given opportunity to help a little bit to instead sing the praises of their enemies.
Maybe it's not just the evil maga cunts and the spineless democrats alone who made this mess. Maybe it's you defeatist whining pussies in this comment section, too.
The correct energy is "fuck yeah, what other ideas and movements can this fit into, support, and help". Get on board with that, whether you Clippy or not.
People whenever something like this (particularly protests that aren't violent uprisings) happens: "It's not a sole and immediate solution, so it's pointless. Also I'm not going to provide a realistic sole and immediate solution that I'm personally willing to act on or lead. Might as well shut up and go quietly."
I get that it's frustrating, but stop trying to slam the door on people trying to build up an environment of resistance, solidarity, and hope. If you can encourage that energy into a more effective direction, then by all means: lead the way. Trying to appear like some savvy intellectual superior and just telling people they're wasting their time isn't the way to do that.
Don't you know that doing anything ever is a complete waste of time unless it immediately solves the problem in a single action? It only took five afternoons online watching ineffectual people whine about people doing literally anything for me to learn that valuable lesson.
I'm sure this will work just as well as changing out avatars to green helped overthrow the iranian theocracy.
I'm not doing the profile picture thing, sorry. It's stupid and forces me to commit to one issue at a time.
Instead, I'll put a clippy in the replies when relevant.
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Fuck Clippy. Clippy represents Microsoft's monopolistic practices in the office suite space by using proprietary formats and making sure ODF was less supported.
We should have a different character that annoyingly explains things instead, like Navi, Kaepora Gaebora, or Omochao.
Predatory software has become so bad that now we have to use the previous generation’s intrusive hated features to protest the new ones.
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