Welcome

Shitty Activism is a community where users sheepishly and self-deprecatingly write about a small bit of activism they did. Unlike slacktivism, "shitty activism" takes some amount of creativity and/or effort, just to a very low-stakes end. This is a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the small things passionate people do to make the world just a slightly better place.

Rules

1. Posts must be about something either you did or e.g. that a friend wished to share through you. This is not a community to share shitty activism that some third party has done. We want to hear about how you made (or tried/are trying to make) the world a teeny-tiny bit better.
2. Do not write about clear-cut slacktivism, like "I upvoted a post calling YouTube's new redesign a crime against humanity." Likewise, "I attended a large protest", "I ran for office", etc., is more clear-cut "normal activism". The main two things you should consider are 1) how low-stakes was the target result (even if you failed), and 2) how much relative creativity and/or effort were put into it? The higher the ratio of effort/creativity to target result, the more likely what you're doing is shitty activism. A bunch of effort (e.g. "I emailed my city councilperson for five months straight about fixing a water fountain at the park") can offset low creativity, and vice-versa for something you feel was especially unique or clever.
3. Do not use this community to start a brigade, either off-site or on-site. An incitement to brigade includes two elements: a call to disruptive action and a specific direction outside of this community in which to take that action. Exceptions include:
   • Calls to boycott.
   • Calls to in-person protest of a government, high-profile individual, or company/organization.
   • Votes provided they have a sufficiently broad target audience or provably effective controls against vote brigading.
4. This is not a support forum about how to do activism. Readers can respectfully provide feedback to stories expressing how the activism might've be improved, but this isn't the place for dedicated "should I/how do I do [X]?" posts, even if what you intend to do would qualify as shitty activism.
5. All Lemmy.World Terms of Service also apply.

Guidelines

1. Be mindful that writing about yourself can unintentionally reveal personally identifying information. Anonymize your stories where you can.
2. If your story involves committing a crime, make sure it's a harmless one like "I grew pot in a place where it's illegal" or "I jaywalked" or "I took ambergris from a beached whale on the Sutherland coast and never gave it to the King". The law isn't perfect; this just isn't the forum.
3. The activism can be for whatever random cause you believe in, and quite a lot of things can be non-traditional activism. Unconventionality might even get you points around here.
4. Posts here are already self-deprecating, so please be polite to the OP about the quality of their activism unless you reasonably believe it did measurable harm.
5. "Shitty activism" used in this endearing way is likely fairly novel, and the lines are blurry. Please report for Rule 2 only if you think it's really obviously slacktivism or really obviously stereotypical activism.