Oh, and you can’t trust Amazon with your newspapers and magazines either. If you want to own your reading and listening and viewing material, you just gotta buy your own copies.
@ayjay Literally true of everything. There isn't a single for-profit enterprise that I trust with anything for which I care enough to include in my life on a regular basis.
Even right here, on Micro.blog, Manton has always prioritised features and messaging that maintain support of people's choices to be as independent as possible. It's a big part of the reason for me being so invested and yet I follow his own exact example; in that I do not rely on Micro.blog as my only host of anything of importance.
@ayjay Oh, on the specific event: hopefully this encourages more people to invest in sustainable options and accept that the convenience they thought was available was in fact a lie all along.
I recently bought an issue of a magazine from an online store that specialises in domestic independent publications, and the whole process was much more pleasant than dealing with the likes of Amazon. Although, I admit that not everybody is lucky enough to have access to such things; hopefully even those people can now find indie alternatives taking up the space that Amazon has now left behind.
@ayjay A decade or so ago, I subscribed to First Things and National Review on Kindle. It was a relative pleasant experience. I wonder if we will lose access to those older issues in Kindle?