See also: setup a public wifi share box to help your neighbors scale back on subscriptions
A bigger deal to them is the theme parks and cruises.
Not only are those big money makers, they’re also easier for news crews to see and report on.
Be aware: Newsweek has a history of posting stories that placate and reassure the non-MAGA crowd. I don’t 100% trust their intentions as an organization. Kamala Harris was definitely going to win according to Newsweek, the week before the election.
We cancelled ours.
I wrote to them and told them that ABC has been my news supplier for decades, but now I’ll be switching to NBC. I’ll also be cancelling my HULU sub.
As for their broadcast content, I told them that I will either pirate it, or watch it in TIVO, and skip the ads. That’s what really hurts them.
All media companies do not serve entertainment as their core business. They are literally nothing more than advertising platforms. That’s where 100% of their revenues comes from. The entertainment is just bait, to make us sit on our couch, and hopefully be too lazy too move our fat asses when the ads come on.
So threatening to consume their expensive bait without consuming their revenue-producing ads, really hurts.
I didn’t have a Disney channel to unsubscribe from so I cancelled my Apple subscription.
I’ve already started my journey to replace all streaming services with jellyfin anyway so i will be cancelling mine too.
This jimmy kimmel business just sweetens the deal.
got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.
The suspension of the show has been met with condemnation and praise from both sides of the political spectrum.
Who on the left is praising it? Is this deliberate bullshit by Newsweek, or just careless copyediting?
It’s really sloppy wordmanship but I think what it’s supposed to be saying is that the news has been met with both condemnation and praise from across the political spectrum aka condemnation from the left, and praise from the right. So technically the statement is true, but clumsily written.
I guess it depends on whether you regard “Republicans Against Trump” as being on the Left. Trump probably does.
Everything to the left of killing homeless people is radical leftism to them.
Exactly. You could check every box in MAGA Bingo, but if you have the slightest qualms about sending innocent people to a life sentence in a third world torture prison without due process, you’re as liberal as a San Francisco Homo or a Black Woman.
I cancelled my disney+ because of this.
This reminds me to cancel my Disney plus subscription. Anytime I ever actually have a subscription is when there’s new episodes of Andor. I’m genuinely baffled as to what other attractor Disney plus has.
doctor who, at least for my parents and I. my parents refuse to pirate shit, though
For parents, Bluey
Just pirate it. No commercials.
Welcome aboard matey?
I’m genuinely baffled as to what other attractor Disney plus has.
The Bear.
The Bear.
Alien: Earth
Clone Wars
Andor
I think PirateBay might have at least one or two of those.
Clone Wars
Alien: Earth
In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:
What about uninstalling their apps?
App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.
That shit is pre installed and unremovable for most non-techies using their normal tv os. It’s so annoying too.
The most annoying thing is they put buttons on the remote for services I don’t subscribe to. Accidentally press one of those buttons when trying to change the volume? Well I guess we’re spending the next 30 seconds opening a streaming service I don’t use and then existing out of it (which they make unnecessarily difficult to do) and then finding my way back to what I was watching.
I think Marvel and star wars addicts might find it hard to cancel thier subscriptions, they are so obsessed with these franchised.
Disney is partially responsible for thier consequences, since they donate heavily to the GOP, we know they sustain the gop in FLORIDA, so it is likely they donate to gop national campaigns too.
Just weighing in as a reformed Marvel fan and lifelong Star Wars fan: I started keeping local copies of that shit almost a decade ago and recommend to anyone I know to do the same. You never know when a streaming company might decide that it is no longer worth the bandwidth to host it, or if the rights will be transferred to a new service that I won’t already have (i.e. all ot them). If you genuinely enjoy almost any media in the modern era you need to have a local copy, because if you don’t some corporate entity may just decide to make it lost media on a whim because it becomes only moderately profitable.
Imagine actual oligarchs and nazis staying in power because actual oppressed people love stories the oligarchs and nazis control about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis too much to stop giving them money.
For those that can’t quit the content cold turkey, there are other avenues of consuming that don’t benefit Disney… 🏴☠️
God damn it, I JUST renewed my sub for a whole year…
Maybe I’m just cynical, but I feel like everyone cancelling is going to forget about this in a few months when the news cycle moves on and a new Star Wars show comes out or something.
Has a disorganized boycott like this ever worked? (honest question)
worked?
Depends on your expectations.
Will they say f’it and bring Kimmel back in the face of the government shutting them down?
No
Will they consider a 10% loss, even if ephemeral, in their next action? Sure. But they’ve already made this calculation, they already knew what was on the line and they weighed it against what the administration was going to do for/against them and it made financial sense.
I’m down to bash big corp as much as the next person, but this is a failure of the people in letting the government do whatever they want. If the people aren’t going to stand against the government, why do we expect the corporations to?
Apparently they didn’t. Top executives are both pissed at Bob Iger and scrambling to figure out how to right the ship.
For me, it’s not about boycott to affect. I just don’t want to give my money to what I do not believe. It’s a personal choice, I can’t control anything, I am just trying to live my life. This is a small thing I can control.
It’s like why delete my Reddit account to be here.
Ye I don’t want my money to support fascism, simple as that.
I ended up being a bit of a hypocrite by not cancelling Hulu when Disney bought them. I gave money to Big Mouse. Not anymore.
A lot of us are only here because we wanted to join a consumer action against Reddit. The first few months I was on Lemmy every post was about how Reddit users were fleeing in droves and we were going to show those big bad corporate clowns over at Reddit not to mess with us and Reddit would collapse within weeks.
Welp. Reddit is doing just fine, so yeah, color me cynical as well. I like it better here though.
Reddit is a wasteland where every informative post is now marked as DELETED by those of us who torched our donated content as we left. It’s full of garbage posts now, and mods who don’t care.
Do they still manage to attract ad revenue, sure, so does X after Musk turned it into a fascist turd bath. Is it as valuable as it used to be? Not by a longshot.
Oh, yes, I 100% agree with this. I’m shocked and horrified every time I get curious enough to poke my head back in there and see how it’s going. Yeah, I only meant they are doing fine in terms of weathering the boycott efforts financially. The Reddit I knew and loved is long gone.
I agree and I thought more people would be frustrated enough to leave Reddit. But there are enough of us here now that there is an alternative to Reddit that is viable. Hopefully that becomes common knowledge and they realize leaving Reddit doesn’t mean not having a community, so they feel encouraged to switch.
I second this. From experience, I noticed more hyper local subs on Reddit are very active, but the more larger general subs seem to endlessly repost old content or share exaggerated titles/content. I do wish there were more of a local presence on Lemmy, not everyone wants to go to Reddit or Facebook Groups for that.
Yeah I wish only for a few things that need a bigger base, sub for my city on Reddit was so helpful, and I miss Normal Nudes and Naked Progress, the NSFW stuff on Lemmy is more onlyfans girls & AI stuff, Reddit had such a massive reach they had everything, more people means more niche stuff.
Overall though? So much nicer here. And I am not sure you can have both, it’s probably nicer because it’s smaller.
Lemmy does need to grow past everyone browsing on “all” (which I do) and then getting outraged for no reason that there’s a woman-only sub. Yes, we need specialist communities that aren’t for everyone too.
For what its worth, I am not browsing “all”. I have two communities in bookmarks and I come and check what was posted in those.
I was pretty late to come to Lemmy though…
What are the two communities?
I only ask out of general interest as its such a specific number, if you’re not comfortable sharing, don’t feel obliged.
A big plus is that I can actually interact with people here in a usually lighthearted manner. You can still find that on Reddit, but it is extremely hard to do now unless you have some extremely niche interests.
Reddit had no monetary cost.
It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.
Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.
*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.
Target was affected by boycotts in a way that other retailers are definitely aware of.
Target definitely took a hit, but I think that actually proves the point of the question. The backlash was loud and visible, but do we know that shoppers haven’t already returned to normal now that it’s out of the current news cycle?
Target stock is down but it is hard to tell. There have been some mismanaged Target stores in my general area that have closed, but there are also many that seem to be run well and are always full of people. You can compare it to Walmart but I don’t think it is a 1:1 comparison since most Walmart locations are also full blown grocery stores and they typically have more locations in suburb/exurb/rural areas that have fewer shopping options.
My local Target has a serious Kmart-at-the-bitter-end vibe going. Lots of empty shelves, stuff sloppily displayed, sullen and unhelpful workers etc. etc. Everything in the grocery section is way more expensive than it is at local grocery stores. I just don’t get why anybody shops there. I only go there because I’m a school bus driver and a good chunk of the tips I get from parents are in the form of Target gift cards. But all I can find worth buying is cheap bicycle gear.
do we know that shoppers haven’t already returned to normal now that it’s out of the current news cycle?
Yeah man, otherwise we wouldn’t be participating in this conversation right?
The very personal and highly disorganized boycott of American goods and services by Canadians is definitely having an effect on several sectors including tourism, alcohol, and media.
Tourism alone has resulted in a loss of about 30 BILLION.
Because the regime and his sycophantic cunts are fucked and can suck our collective dick.
Tourism alone has resulted in a loss of about 30 BILLION.
fam in vegas is looking to move because the writing is on the wall. foreigners coming to gamble in this shit? yeah let’s go to munich 1940 for a happy time. :|
Cancel but setup stremio + alldebrid at the same time.
Yes. Boycotts don’t need to be organized to be effective. Some (def not all, and not usually Disney for that matter) to listen to fan and customer feedback.
Companies track their income trends extremely closely. Even a blip of 1% will be reported on in every shareholder meeting and need to be explained.
If they cancel Disney the same way they cancel amazon, this is gonna be huge(ly disappointing)
No, these boycotts have never worked.
Good for you Americans. Don’t reactivate even if Kimmel comes back!
Surely resubscribing if they reverse their decision is the strongest signal to go woke or go broke. That there’s money in allowing criticism of president, that can go away again if they engage with government censorship in America (of all places) again.
That makes more sense to me. But I don’t have a subscription anyway
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I don’t even like Jimmy Kimmel, but I cancelled too. Don’t fuck with the 1st amendment.
yep. not gonna subsidize them caving to fascism.
The only reason I’ve never canceled is because I’ve never subscribed.
But I wish I had something to cancel in protest of the egregious 1st amendment violations.
Would signing up for the free trial and then instantly canceling it count?
Track down the advertisers on your local ABC affiliate stations and cancel them!
I also don’t subscribe, but have paid to watch the occasional Marvel movie. I’m happy to pass on whatever they’ve got lined up next if it gets them to take their role in fostering free speech more seriously.
“Freedom of speech for me, not for thee”
