I appreciate the idea, but this "Attention Strike" for a single day will have clearly insignificant impact on tech services. It's like expecting a 4 hours long national protest to do any damage on the economy. I already don't use social media at all most of the days.

For an impact to be present it should last at least for a month. Not so hard to put in place, there are lots of people already doing some form of absteinance on november for no reason, there is pride month, there is christmas month, just need to tell em to reduce/stop using social media for this month (eg. November)

It's by reducing their daily usage of social media for a month that people will understand they can keep this routine even out of that month, and thus reducing effectively their revenue for the companies.

Can we get a list of what counts as “Big Tech?” Lemmy is already my only social media and I don’t use any messengers outside of Signal and Simplex. Are we talking classical Silicon Valley (FAANG)? Chromium browsers? Anything at all on an iPhone or Android? What about game platforms?

This is so vague.

One days starvation won't even show up their monthly analytics

Not to be a mood killer, but most of us are here because we didn't like what Reddit was turning it to. Especially and personally since 2023 where they started charging for their API use. This was not a 24 hour pause, or insignificant symbolic action. This is people actively leaving the platform. Yet their active user count has risen ever since

I don't use any of their apps normally... except Google maps (cause of family location sharing). I'll stop that for a day

or, burn their headquarters to the ground

Now, I'm no mathematician, but what is going on with their math? If you're asking people to give it up for 24 hours, why minimize the reclaimed hours by only counting 4 per person?

"That's reclaiming 312 hours from big tech's control. If 1000 people signed up, we could save 24,000 hours."

I mean this seems really unserious. They make money off data, stop giving the creeps your data -- that is the only way to do anything different.