Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.

[kamen@lemmy.world]

I agree about the "everything in one place"; besides that, in terms of shopping, there's not much to it. There used to be some services that were pretty neat, e.g. unlimited cloud storage for photos (including RAW files) for something like 50 EUR/year, but of course they axed that.

Plenty of alternatives for everything, just maybe a little less convenient.

In terms of media, I don't stream; whatever I pay for is either at local shows where I buy CDs from artists directly, or through label stores, or through outlets like Bandcamp (btw it's Bandcamp Friday right now until the end of the weekend, go support what you like).

[Guest]

Boycotts are useless.

[leninonaprayer@lemm.ee]

Unorganized boycotts with no demands and no pressure from labor unions are useless. Boycotts in support of labor are absolutely class solidarity.

This one is useless. As most "reddit" boycotts are.

[Guest]

Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.

[fattony@lemm.ee]

What are you doing?
Never buying anything at all from Amazon, ever.

[naughty_not_bad@lemmynsfw.com]

I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely

[Guest]

Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWs

[Guest]

Fuckin' a. Respect

[Guest]

I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!

[Guest]

I disagree. Even if just YOU boycott and no one else does. The boycott does something. Even if you don't believe in it, step aside and push the train forward while it passes you. Don't create friction.

[Guest]

Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!

[Guest]

We can only control what we can control

[Guest]

Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.

[Guest]

The right killed dei solely using boycotts

[and009@lemmynsfw.com]

Forgoing the convinience isn't easy, even gotta look at the purchase and decide if it'll be used frequently or just a use and throw

[Guest]

I think in this case is more a "not enough is the friend of comptent". But you do you ‍️

[null@slrpnk.net]

This just in folks, boycotting Amazon for a week is "no good". Don't do it!

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Doing my boycott for the half a year already and at best are uszally small things like tea bags because that type is nowhere I have seen yet.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they're fascist capitalist bitches.

[buddascrayon@lemmy.world]

I agree with the principal of personal boycotts, though not effective in doing anything to affect the companies that you are boycotting, are necessary. But OP is right. For instance I have been boycotting Chick-fil-A for the last 10 years because I don't agree with their homophobic attitude. But it has zero effect on their bottom line because no one else boycotts them or even cares. I think the kesson is that you should not expect any kind of real outcome from your personal boycott of a company. You should just be satisfied that you are not personally supporting that company.