the torrent of shitlibs on The Mastodon Network™ engaging in their most daring acts of #resistance to date by canceling their fucking Disney+ is just overwhelming. I shudder to think what the timeline looks like on hrk Bluesky 😦

Don't underestimate the power of boycott and voting with your wallet. It's one of the few things - if not the only thing - left that people can do safely, that has a real impact on corporate decision-making. And since the corporations are in cahoots with the government in a fascist regime, that in turn has a real impact on policies.

What doesn't have an impact is people boycotting X, Y or Z one day when they get their pants in a knot over the scandal du jour that everybody forgets about one week later, and then it's back to business as usual. Corporations count on people's fecklessness and always wait long enough to see if the issue goes away by itself.

So if people want to vote with their wallet effectively, they have to do it in the long run.

Streaming services are like gym memberships: the incentives are all screwed up because they make most of their money from people who never use the service. They just thought they would, and never got around to cancel.

That means that for a lot of their customers, cancelling is zero cost (even positive cost) and you are not getting those people back.

This is a much different proposition than trying to boycott the only supermarket in a 30 min area.

Ps, on Bluesky the Disney plus thing has mostly blown over. We’re angry at Ezra Klein now.

"I want to be a part of the change, but I don't want anything in my life to change"

Sucks humans don't have the capacity to feel two opinions or know two facts at once.

I don't know what Marvel's unlimited is so I can't really judge the effect of this kind of move.

I mean, isn't that objectively true? If they cancel the subscription and each other household buys their own, then the Disney revenue goes from 1 to 4.

This phenomenon is less of an individual thing and more of an ensemble property, as statistical mechanics would say.

Damn, really?

more effective than posting on forums that agree with you for upvotes

so resistance right now

/uj You don't "vote" with your wallet, you excercise political force though actual activism

If they're sharing it, maybe they're in close enough contact to talk them out of it..

Why are we angry at Ezra?

Yeah, pales in comparison with all the meaningful action we're doing here.

You can do both.