@nlupo This is exactly the nuanced take that's been missing. The all-or-nothing approach – "jump ship now or you're part of the problem" – is actively harmful to the very people we're supposed to support.

The YouTuber/PeerTube comparison is spot on. Telling someone to abandon years of work and their entire income overnight for ideological purity? That's just not how the real world works.

The smarter path: Use FOSS alternatives as a backup, a secondary channel, an additional distribution point. Not as a kamikaze mission.

And here's the thing – if more of us do exactly that, if we start mirroring content, linking to our Faircamp or PeerTube alongside everything else, then these alternatives will grow. The network effect starts working in their favor. Suddenly there's content there, there's a reason for people to visit, and over time they become viable primary platforms.

Change doesn't happen through dramatic self-sabotage. It happens through patient, consistent groundwork. One foot in the old world, one foot in the new.

Activism without strategy is just theater