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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Chump change for Bozos. Hardly a scratch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 31 minutes ago

And he doesn't give a shit. Subscribers don't matter, control of a well known paper that will push his interests does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

I daresay this is the outcome he hoped for. Suddenly there are a bunch of open editorial author seats to fill. Taking bets on those seats being filled by people who don't lean quite so far to the left.

And a significant loss in subscribers? That's just the principled people fleeing who weren't gonna buy his nonsense either way. The people who stick around are the ones who are okay with billionaire interference in their news source, and those are the people Bezos wants as subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Just canceled prime too

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Their subscriber numbers have been absolutely decimated by Bezos’ decision.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

It’s down 10% which is the literal definition of decimated!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago) (2 children)

~~Literally decimated would be “down to 10%” aka down 90% I think~~ I was wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

All you had to do was click the link and you would have found out that you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 41 minutes ago

Yeah you’re right I’m the one who mixed it ip

[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago

Decimation means killing 1/10th of a group or population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

![https://media1.giphy.com/media/vO43NDjeQPaQo/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe91dls2uphre6knaki1w9xgjsppo46n0b1wio6c2ssf&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g](Neil from “White Collar” loves it when we’re on the same page. )

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees.

Bozos doesn't like you looking at how badly he fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Do Amazon next. I plan to let mine expire. Amazon video is trash.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think I've ever watched anything from Amazon directly.

Seen lots of their content though :) 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 minutes ago

Seen lots of their content though :) 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Arr, yarr, haharrr!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yup, I'm not paying an extra $3/mo on top of what I pay for prime for no ads, I'll just not watch what's on your service. Not to mention, most of the filler movies/shows on all of these streaming services are garbage anyway. If it weren't for my wife, I would just have my Jellyfin server by itself.

If I lived anywhere near a city and not in the mountains, I wouldn't have prime either. It just saves too much time whereas my time is in short supply and I don't have it to make a 3 hour round trip run every few days.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 hours ago

CNN talks about WaPo getting a backlash for not endorsing, but says nothing about Bezos intervention, lol.

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/29/media/usa-today-gannett-newspapers-endorsement-president/index.html

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago

Washington Toast