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Drawing attention has zero impact no matter how often or how rarely you do it. Unless the Rust team has privileged knowledge that they're releasing, or are dire
by pie_flavor 4y ago
Drawing attention has zero impact no matter how often or how rarely you do it. Unless the Rust team has privileged knowledge that they're releasing, or are directly acting in the interests of known individual contributors, donating any amount of money to a cause is worth far more than tens of thousands of people becoming informed that the world is slightly worse than it was yesterday.
Even if drawing attention was worth anything, I think you are assuming the wrong frequency - the Rust technical release notes may contain few calls to political action, but everyone reading them spends enough time online to be constantly bombarded with them.
- maccam94 4y agoNo one is going to donate to something unless they're aware of it, so spreading awareness does help increase the potential pool of donors.
- vvillena 4y agoThis is quite the way to discredit the whole business of marketing and advertising, and its core goal of informing people about things no matter what. Activism is marketing. Unfortunately, marketing is not my field of expertise, so I won't make any hypothesis on its impact.
- pie_flavor 4y agoNo, it is not. Marketing is about making you want to buy something, and appeals to your materialism. Raising awareness is about making you Aware that something is happening, and appeals to your altruism. There is a heck of a lot more of the former, and the latter doesn't actually make you want to perform any specific action (if it results in action at all, frequently, the action is just sharing it again).