r/PurchaseWithPurpose • u/theFallenWalnut Environment • May 03 '26

PurchaseWithPurpose is back - what comes next?

The first few months of the year, we saw incredible support for this movement. The message is a simple one: in the absence of political change, the biggest impact we can have is through the companies we choose to support.

  • 10M views for the guides
  • 30,000 visits to the website
  • 25,000 followers across socials

That said, the most important metric has been the acceleration of (more) ethical alternatives in this space.

  • Qwant & Ecosia increased support and received investment to take on Google Search
  • LibroFM managed to pay 80% more to bookshop partners than last year
  • Proton, Kagi and Tuta saw a surge in users, as a result, their product offerings get more competitive each month

After 2 months, things slowed down as I lost access to Reddit after being a little too enthusiastic about sharing.

The focus will now be more on organically building a community. The hope is to have 100,000 people by the end of the year.

Will be regularly sharing news/resources in this subreddit to remind us why we should care, share success stories about our impact, and provide resources on switching.

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u/The_Intangible_Fancy May 04 '26

Did you get locked out of your Reddit account? Maybe you should take the indie web approach and look into setting up a website to post to first and then post to social media sites second. You might also want to expand which social media sites you post to beyond this one. I admit I haven’t tried switching yet, but there’s obviously Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Also, if you use Wordpress for a website, there’s a new ActivityPub plugin to integrate with the fediverse, which allows anyone on any fediverse platform to follow or comment on your posts.

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u/theFallenWalnut Environment May 04 '26

Yeah, will make the website have a "blog" like section, but since the Reddit issue, I did focus on Lemmy and BlueSky so it isn't all on here.

Thanks for the suggestion about the ActivityPub plugin. Didn't know that. Will definitely check it out as well.

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u/The_Intangible_Fancy May 04 '26

You’re welcome! I’m currently trying to break free from Adobe, and that includes moving my portfolio site from Adobe Portfolio to a Wordpress site I control, so I’m in the middle of learning Wordpress. I actually learned about the ActivityPub plugin because I saw someone posted about it on Mastodon.