Comment by gosub100
7 months ago
Please don't partake in virtue signalling. It makes you feel like you're making a difference, allows you to signal to your tribe that you feel a certain way (gaining you virtue among them), but requires 0 actual effort.
It's not virtue signalling: it's a concrete action. Refusing traffic from an audience like Hacker News is meaningful. Any boycott is meaningful.
It is also the opposite of silence. Someone speaking up and saying, 'This is not okay and we should not do it', as the OP did, is important.
It's not a boycott if you are the product.
It kind of is if I don't participate though.
Refusing to use a platform is literally the opposite of virtue signaling
Refusing to use a platform is a concrete action. A post complaining about other people using that platform is bit performative and a bit rude.
It’s literally not performative by definition