ayjay
ayjay

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.

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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@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.

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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@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.

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KyleEssary
KyleEssary

@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?

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