Speaking of boycotting slop and trying to proactively shape the stack of the future around #NeverSlop values, I'm following the tag because of the Subway Chuck Effect.
Unless you were in a specific fandom at a specific time, you will have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about, but there was a show called Chuck. And if you watch the show on a DVD you found at a yard sale today, you might be a little surprised and offput by the amount of Subway sandwich product placement within the show. It might seem like an early victim of terrible advertising practices, but the emotional reality for fans at the time was very different.
It was a bit of a niche show and spent most of its time on the verge of being cancelled. It could only survive if advertisers kept paying for it. Subway was the most prominent one. So fans self-organized to buy sandwiches right after the show's network time slot, every single week. Subway couldn't help but notice the spike in sales, *because of the timing.*
This created a strange, mutualistic culture between Subway and the fans, where they were effectively paying for the show indirectly through Subway. I don't know if this could - let alone should - exist today. But as a fan of the show (the shitty little netbook that got me through college was my sidekick, so I named it after Morgan, tru fax), this has been my metaphor for economic timing signals ever since.
So I think, in the open source world, we have an opportunity to send strong signals to maintainers, both by immediately and publicly dropping the software tools that politically misrepresent us, but also by immediately and publicly adopting the tools we see doing the right thing. Obviously some people will be able to respond quicker than others, I certainly know this as someone with a disability that gives me serious fatigue. But I try to be as fast and as public as I can. Because this matters in a world where maintainers care a lot about reputation and market share.