More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you’re just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.
@ProPublica@newsie.social is one good alternative.
As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.
This was the straw that finally got my wife to agree to let me cancel prime. I wanted to as soon as add were added to video. Sadly it auto renewed on the 10th of Oct :(
This exact thing happened to me. I cancelled anyway and they refunded most of the subscription fee. Just do it. Wish i could have told them why I was cancelling.
404 media seems nice
The link’s not working
The link is for a Mastodon account:
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica
And here’s their site: https://www.propublica.org/
Some reasons I think they’re neat:
My favorite news source is Democracy Now
Al Jazeera for me, bby
Most of the web runs on AWS good luck avoiding Amazon
Just about a third anyhow. Remember the great fiasco where an engineer was turning off one server and mistakenly turned them alll off and Facebbok etc was down for 6 hours? Like a goddamn dream… a wonderful place.
Like setting fire to the Amazon and stuff?
As a species we’re clearly doing our very best