i wouldn't say they're always performative, because there's always nuance. but i would say that they're probably #2 on my list of pointless bullshit that almost never actually achieves anything, right after petitions.
yes, it does literally nothing. even if nobody shopped at target ever again it would change absolutely nothing. they'd go into administration, get bought by some other corporation, and possibly rebrand. wealthy people would likely profit from short selling the stock.
target isn't the problem. the problem is the system. you can't change the system by boycotting some random business. i am begging you to do literally any other form of activism. because this aint it.
luigi, now there's a guy with bolder ideas.
do you genuinely think that i'm wrong? do you truly believe in your heart that a 40 day boycott of a single big box store will help people?
we're literally watching the united states become a fascist dictatorship and you believe that this is an appropriate response?
people are suffering and dying because of us, and we're congratulating ourselves for buying stuff on amazon instead of target for 40 days? seriously?
i don't need a proofreader. i need people to wake up and actually do something, not waste everyone's time and energy with performative bullshit that achieves nothing other than making us feel like we're not doing nothing.
i can tell you why - because it's easy. this is slacktivism. it changes nothing about policy. it exists exclusively to make people feel better about capitulating and doing nothing to prevent their country from becoming a fascist dictatorship
don't get me wrong, i would have voted harris. (im not american) but she wouldn't have been good. she wouldn't have even been ok. but she was better than trump.
and thank god for that, i'd been saying for years, webauthn is great tech which will never be adopted by normal people, because it had an awful name. luckily we were able to just call OATH TOTP "two factor authentication" or that would have been totally DOA too. I got big hopes for passkeys!
everyone is sick and tired of tech promising to make the world better, only to make everything worse. i totally get the mistrust, the feeling that this is probanly just another trick from big corporations to steal even more of your privacy. i know much better than most people what it's like. i know you've got no real reason to believe me, i'm just a random silly gay furry boy, but, trust me, in this case, we should be adopting this tech. if you've got family members or friends who are more vulnerable to phishing scams - often scammers target the elderly - i'd really encourage you to encourage them to set up passkeys. as always, i strongly recommend bitwarden - it can manage passkeys and sync them between devices and it's totally secure and open source.
much love & solidarity!
yeah that's totally true, but usually modern devices ensure that the passkeys are protected with a PIN or some biometric security, so I think it's at least as strong as having a password manager on your device that can be unlocked with a PIN.
not really sure what you mean about "out of the ordinary" logins - it sounds like you're thinking about phishing risks? but remember - passkeys cannot be phished. they verify the identity of both sides of the authentication token exchange - the server verifies you, and you verify the server. If you only use passkey authentication, you are safe from being phished. the most secure system would be one entirely without passwords/oath totp
TOTP 2FA is less secure than passkeys. 2FA TOTP keys can be phished. Passkey authentication cannot be phished. This is a security improvement which can make people completely immune to phishing attacks. That's huge. And it doesn't have any privacy risks, no loss of anonymity. It's an open standard.
This is, objectively, a rare example of new technology which will make the world better and safer for us.
i'm a union officer and rep, and i'm engaged with activism efforts in my area. sometimes i get bored at work and comment on lemmy.
it was easier for you to lash out at me than it was for you to actually seriously engage with what i wrote - that kind of reaction serves the ruling class, and sows division between the working class.