I have one outstanding order that is already out for delivery. Once I get that, I’m closing my amazon account. I’m done. Buy nothing. Vote with your wallet. Edit: account is closed. get bent Bozos.
Oh good another company to not give my money to. I will be saving a lot this year.
You can live without Twitch. Once you leave, you have so much time to do other stuff. Stuff that are so much better than watch other people play games or eat ramen in Tokyo. Go play games yourself and see the world around you with your own eyes. You can also stop ordering useless new stuff. Visit thrift stores or buy second hand online.
God I hate sites that instantly play video ads. Like if I want my phoneplan fast data going to that. Wanted to read. Did not.
I wonder what makes the author of the article think that Bezos did this. The CEO of Amazon has been Andy Jassy since 2021.
Now will people leave Twitch? What about companies that contract with AWS?
Ah gotcha. I appreciate your insight - I’ll definitely be looking into this further.
Member 10 years ago when tech billionaires sucked up to Democrats
Yeah… now Trump will give them everything they want as long as they kiss his ass.
Just last night I was going through all my subscribe and save items and finding alternatives. I stored them in a spreadsheet (LibreOffice). My last order is already in motion and once delivered that’s it. Amazon is gone.
Other changes I’ve made or am in the process of making:
- FB + IG -> PixelFed
- Reddit -> Lemmy (lemm.ee)
- X -> BlueSky
- Tesla hasn’t been on my wish list for a while -> Rivian or another alternative… wish I could say Xiaomi
- YouTube -> PeerTube, LibreTube, piped.video, invidious
Where I’m stuck and looking for help: What do I do for my next phone? Android and Apple are both at the table supporting this mess. Linux alternatives seem like huge downgrades at the moment… any advice?
I have been thinking about getting a Murena Fairphone.
Wow - that looks like a very solid option!! I’m very interested… this may be my next phone! Thank you so much!
X -> BlueSky
Why not Mastodon?
Groups I follow are on BlueSky – happy to check out Mastodon as well though.
GrapheneOS
Anything samsung galaxy phones? I got a later model and don’t know if I can get anything other than the stock program.
to my knowledge there’s not a lot available for samsung hardware at the moment, maybe check out sailfish?
Is there a reason to choose Graphene vs Lineage (or any others I may not know about)?
I don’t have any experience with Lineage so I don’t want to speak to it. May just be hardware dependent in a lot of cases. I had a pixel when I got sick of googles shit and Graphene was the only option for me, so that’s what I sprung for. The experience has been very positive - installation was easy - the fresh start was welcome.
I’ve closed almost every account as well. I like Bluesky and PixelFed so far. As far as phones go, I’m just going to keep my same Android for now. It’s old and I will not upgrade until I have to. I use fdroid for everything. I though of switching to Apple, but as you said, they are kissing the ring too. Sad times.
With android you can avoid the google play store so they don’t get a cut of ad revenue. I don’t know whether Google gets a cut of phones they didn’t manufacture just because Android is on it, considering Android is open source and the manufacturers are responsible for updates.
I’m using f-droid now. A quick search shows Google makes money via play store and having some of their apps as default (to sell ads) – so maybe that will still work for me. I’ll dig in further. Thank you!
Get a 10 usd phone, like the old ones?
Are there any that will allow me to still text with my friends and family on Signal?
Just send an SMS, it’s not the end of the world
Alternatively, the next usual Lemmy suggestion is too isolate yourself and lose those friends
People with social media don’t realize, they’ve already lost those friends. You’re keeping up with them superficially at best. If you quit the platform, chances are you will not notice that you’re no longer so superficially keeping up with them, you will not hear from them, and they will not notice either. Anyone that you actually want to keep in touch with, you can send a message through text, or call.
Vast majority of my friends are communicating via Signal. So far the best option looks to be to use/install a version of android that cuts out the google stuff. F-droid for apps to avoid $ from play store while also avoiding $ from ads.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
If enough people do this, it will certainly make a dent exactly where they don’t want it to. I may be wrong, but I do believe it’s possible to reach critical mass. With that said, it also helps my conscience at the same time. I won’t comment on the other part other than it’s already been figured out and demonstrated. Best I’m willing to do personally is voting with my wallet.
That would imply that the republicans were right the entire time with their weapons zealotry
It’s always worth cutting ties with Amazon.
Just about everything is available from somewhere else, and probably cheaper with their enormous fees they charge the sellers.
If it isn’t available elsewhere, it’s probably an Aliexpress fire hazard anyway.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
Why are you copy/pasting this… joke?.. all over this thread?
Well I notice the £95 a year not spent on Amazon Prime.
Closed my account last night. Made my partner close theirs and cancel prime too.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
I generally agree, but I’m not going to knowingly give money to ghouls who are trying to make my existence worse. I’m not at all against using [redacted] but I do think the idea that boycotts are worthless isn’t correct. Boycotts have been successful in the past, it just requires some solidarity and that part is what has been missing from a lot of the wider calls recently. I do think we could impact their profits. But we can do both this and sabo-[redacted]
It is a shame it is always the same companies. I can only boycott them once.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
Many of the boycotted corporations have faced massive losses. Enough for some of them to have cut ties or divest.
A boycott does not have to bankrupt a company. A few percent revenue loss is more than enough for them to reconsider. As soon as the losses outweigh the profits to be exact.
Another reason to buy things directly from the manufacturer rather then from Amazon. It’s generally cheaper as well.
Hahahaha!
Its funny how these corpos were praised when they raised the LGBT colors, back then they were the moral compas of the western societies, now they’re “fascist”.
Maybe people won’t forget that the companies would do anything in order to increase profits. They never cared about anyone rights, else they wouldn’t use slave labor in southeast Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa.
They’ll kiss whatever ring they need to kiss. The only moral these people have is “number go up”. Fuck this planet.
The cooperation of capital and government is an integral part of fascist regimes. They where never your friends and have no ideology beyond their profits by any means.
