Louis Rossman strikes again.
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Wait… You all have profile pictures?
Lemmy and Piefed support profile pictures. They show up in the web view. It’s just that the mobile apps don’t bother with them. (At least the good one doesn’t. I’m talking about Voyager)
8min video and I gave up after 2:30 of rambling. Anybody have a tl;dw?
clippy is better than all the awful ai junk we have now, change your pfp to clippy to protest.
Man, I love Louis but your complaint about rambling is so valid. It only caters to the people who already agree with him and scares away people who would otherwise be convinced by the same points delivered in a better manner
Edit: since the other summaries aren’t really helpful imo, Louis is saying that Clippy is representative of a time when Microsoft software worked perfectly fine without an internet connection and served to simply help you get work done instead of use you as a revenue source
Make your pfp clippy to show that you’re not going to follow orders
How about you just don’t follow orders? In my opinion, that should be much more effective.
It’s to see that there are other people doing the same. The whole point is to show that there are people out there with the same mindset. The point is not to celebrate clippy, it’s just means to show the commitment.
Or maybe swap to a different OS. I dont think MS is gonna care people are switching their profile pictures to clippy. This just feels like more slacktivism.
You have to hit them where it hurts. In the wallet.
Activism like this isn’t for people on Lemmy, who have already been exposed to the likes of decentralisation, open source Vs closed source etc… its predominantly for those that still think brand name = quality.
I don’t use social media these days, but i do have inactive accounts; I’m considering logging in and changing the pictures to clippy. It may have absolutely no effect, or it may be the 16th clippy PFP that someone sees, which may then prompt them to ask why everyone is changing their photo to clippy.
So whilst it won’t change anything in a large way, it can act as the catalyst for those who are still unaware to try and educate themselves on the subject, and hopefully lead to them leaving Microsoft products altogether like you’ve alluded to.
For example; I’m already not using any Microsoft products, so continuing to not use their products is less impactful than by changing my mainstream photos to clippy, even if it has no effect.
We can try to tell people about the evils of microsoft until we’re blue in the face… But if they “research” it themselves, it’s far more likely to stick.
Change my pfp? I changed my OS.
He also posts on Odysee. Here’s the same video.
Even though I’m usually on Team Rossman, anytime people change their profile picture for a cause, it reminds me of this
Done. Had to figure out where to go to change my profile pic – didn’t take as long as the video, lol.
This sort of thing is reason why I stopped paying attention to Louis Rossman. I guess when someone lives inside a social media bubble for so long their reality gets warped enough to think changing a profile picture is the way to make a difference in the world.
or winamp
