• masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    44·
    3 days ago

    I feel like there’s three types of buy nothing:

    1. buy it for life - people looking to reduce consumerism by purchasing high quality, long lasting items that aren’t engineered to have limited lifespans. See https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

    2. second hand trading groups - people who want to reduce consumerism by creating vibrant second hand marketplaces and encouraging selling, trading, and donating of old goods. Lemmy is the wrong format for this, these groups tend to exist in geographically focused platforms like Facebook and Kijiji.

    3. true die-hard anti consumerists - want to never buy anything, including any items that are remotely consumable. Hard to find these communities as these people tend to head off grid, and / or self implode.

    • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, the problem with being anticonsumption is that you are basing your personality off of being opposed to something. And the only people who want to bond over being opposed to things are miserable people who like being miserable.

      Anticonsumption? Great! But what are you going to do??? If you make your own things, then that’s what you do. If you barter or buy used, that’s something you do. If you do fun things that dont require material resources, then that’s something you do. But if what you “do” is sit at home and not consume things while complaining about other people consuming things on the internet, then you aren’t a noble crusader for the environment (or whatever) - you’re a hater.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Buy nothing communities work best in localized areas I think, for practical reasons. Not sure if a general community would work with users all around the world.

    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 days ago

      people can just talk about stuff. if i accepted your argument, there would be no need for political communities, since these are also not going to change anything, but we are still happy to generate 1000 comment flamewar 😆

      • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The purpose of a buy nothing group is to give away free stuff in the easiest and fastest way possible. That only works if it’s a local community where people can meet up or travel a short distance to the person giving away stuff. That’s why buy nothing groups on facebook for example are grouped by zip code or general areas within a given city.

        I’ve never seen a buy nothing group where people discuss things. People post only if they’re giving away stuff or if they are in need of something. Discussions can be done on a thrifting community or something similar, not a buy nothing group.

  • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    As someone else already mentioned, [email protected] is a good bet, but it’s still not as active as other communities.

    I’d suggest also looking into:

    As all of those are frequently intertwined with the movements to either buy nothing, or reduce how much you absolutely need to buy in the first place.

    For something outside Lemmy, if you haven’t already I’d suggest checking out the group aptly named the Buy Nothing Project, as they’re an incredible resource if you want to find things in your community others are willing to give away, or want an easy way to give away things you no longer need that doesn’t require having a yard sale style table setup or coordinating giveaways through Facebook posts. (though they do have Facebook groups for different areas for those who don’t want to use their app)

  • nostrauxendar@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 days ago

    No, but that sounds really interesting. I’ve long been frustrated by rampant consumerism, and not just that but also by how blatantly companies will shaft consumers on quality, size, functionality… A laundry list of ways to make their products worse because it nets them a tiny saving per product which all adds up to a new megayacht. Nickle and diming bastards!

  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    I thought that was r/dig-a-hole-and-die-in-it?

    Be sure to put the “free shovel & dirt” post it on the shovel before you disturb the walls of your internment garden… pockets full of seeds, etc.

    FFS: This is a 1000% sarcastic comment… no I don’t think it’s funny, etc.