Remember, if you’re going to consume Pride merch, buy from places like Humble Bundle that actually put the money towards LGBTQ+ organisations. Paying a random conglomerate twice the normal price for an item, especially if you’re queer or an ally, makes little sense and only incentivises businesses to boost their profits from the queer and ally community.
Even Humble Bundle itself is pretty enshittified compared to how it used to be. They used to give you a lot more control over which charities you supported etc.
Besides aliming down the sliders, they locked the “minimum to get all of it” price for bundles at like $25, and made it so the “minimum” tip to Bundle at like $7.50, up from $1. They also hid the charity sliders behind more obscure UI elements so people mostly forget that selecting the share of the bundle going to charity was a big part of the experience.
Something that I have been warning about for years now is that all of these establishment voices that claim to support a thing are just going to use that thing up and then discard it like a used tissue.
The sooner people realize that, the better off everyone will be. Global megacorps are not your friend.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Remember, if you’re going to consume Pride merch, buy from places like Humble Bundle that actually put the money towards LGBTQ+ organisations. Paying a random conglomerate twice the normal price for an item, especially if you’re queer or an ally, makes little sense and only incentivises businesses to boost their profits from the queer and ally community.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even Humble Bundle itself is pretty enshittified compared to how it used to be. They used to give you a lot more control over which charities you supported etc.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
IGN bought them a couple of years ago.
Besides aliming down the sliders, they locked the “minimum to get all of it” price for bundles at like $25, and made it so the “minimum” tip to Bundle at like $7.50, up from $1. They also hid the charity sliders behind more obscure UI elements so people mostly forget that selecting the share of the bundle going to charity was a big part of the experience.
sj_zero 3 weeks ago
Something that I have been warning about for years now is that all of these establishment voices that claim to support a thing are just going to use that thing up and then discard it like a used tissue.
The sooner people realize that, the better off everyone will be. Global megacorps are not your friend.