Every since I decided to join the Buy European movement, I’ve been avoiding US tech as much as possible. I still have my personal accounts but I try to use fediverse and European alternatives. However I’ve also built my website to promote buying European products. (Non profit, I don’t earn from it).
Now that got me thinking… Most people that use Fediverse are fairly in the loop on things like “buy European” and shop local etc. But who really need to hear the info is people who are not. To reach them I’d probably need to insert links to my website on “big tech” social media websites. It makes me feel like an imposterer though to do that (advice to buy European and then putting content on an American network).
Can you guys/girls/others please tell me how you would handle this situation and what you think is best?
Generally if you are ethically ok with using fascist / capitalist “social” media go for it. As you say it might (if the overlords allow it) reach people outside the choir.
One biiiiiig condition:
Make sure that everything you post there is also available on the real internet. There’s nothing I despise more than people from lefstist circles who are only posting their stuff on Insta or similar. Like wtf.
I don’t really despise people who do that, but it is a bit odd to post against big tech and then only post on big tech 🙈
It will never be my only posting platform again. Right now I’m loving the fediverse, so I’m sticking to that (and the website I’m making of course)