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

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Can't remember the last time I bought something from there to begin with.

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[–] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I can't deny the convenience Amazon provide people in terms of their logistics and the range of products available in one place.

In saying that, it's really not that difficult to forgo, and there are plenty of alternatives. Don't buy books: get a library card. Buy your electronics from Canada Computers or other similar stores. Healthy Planet and Well.ca are great for cosmetics and self care. Trade prime for a Plex server. There are plenty of options.

I fully deleted my amazon account at the start of this Trump mess and asked them to delete all of my personal data. Life goes on.

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree about the "everything in one place"; besides that, in terms of shopping, there's not much to it. In terms of services there used to be some pretty neat stuff, 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 from paid services; 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).

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