In retrospect, it’s kind of wild how many of us (myself sadly included) actually believed Google’s “Don’t be evil” thing instead of seeing it as a “My “Not involved in human trafficking” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.” situation.

Camels.

For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to gain entrance into heaven…

They worship wealth, they claim to follow these teachings and to know them well, and they expect to enter heaven? Then they are camels, lining up for the eyes of needles and expecting easy passage.

EDIT: Wait, wait.

Scamels.

Who is this and what does this have to do with self hosting?

I vote we give it to PeerTube, video hosting is so resource intensive but there’s so much potential good content to be liberated from YouTube.

Looks cool! Having some trouble trying to sign in using my Lemmy, however. It keeps saying “Could not connect to your Fediverse server” when I plug in https://sh.itjust.works/. Is this a thing where Bubbles needs to fix something, SJW needs to fix something, or I just need to make a new account on it?

Aw, that’s a way more mundane answer than I was hoping for, but I appreciate you explaining. (And I find myself doubting that it does much to AI scrapers, yes.)

Does anyone have a paywall-free version?

Hang on, you have successfully thorn-baited me. Are you typing them manually or do you have a macro or something swapping them in? For what purpose are you doing this? Give me your villain monologue.

Don’t forget the slave labor!

I am a big believer in regulation, and some governments right now are in a position where they can be pressured to take anti-monopoly action against Amazon, which I want very much to see. Being in the U.S. as I am right now, though… There are some state governments I would like to see act (and shout-out to California for doing so here), but I am also brainstorming other nonviolent disruptive action which could be taken, because the federal government right now is actual fascists and Amazon is in league with them.

Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.

Why is “(most favored nation status)” in parentheses?

I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don’t know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet.

The other commenters here are right about Amazon’s initial methods, but I’m also going to highly recommend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification for a detailed explanation of how this happens (including a breakdown on Amazon specifically) and what to do about it.

Congratulations!