@resist1984 I'd like to add: you don't need to be perfect with the boycott, reducing the amount of support for amazon (i.e. buying something) by 90%-99% will help enabling alternatives. Un-Default Amazon! Look for alternatives!
I wish we saw more love for this sort of incrementalism, to be honest.
The giants didn't get giant overnight, we aren't going to get to their better successors overnight.
The giants are giant! Even diverting a fraction of the commerce and attention they draw can still be a lot!
We need to feed everyone's imagination as to what else is possible. A single step into the world outside the silos is a huge step.
One thing on my project list: a Universal Product Catalog. Find a product on the site, and the site will link you directly to all the places you can get it (online and/or local to you) -- the actual product pages, where possible -- eventually with crowdsourced ratings of each source, along various metrics including ethicality.
@woozle @andre @deejoe Those types of services come and go over the years, but they're always useful and needed most now with #Amazon's stranglehold. The crowdsourced ratings will consume a large share of your energy I suspect. The ethics feature is the very needed thing that could make it a killer service distinguished from the rest. So I suggest deferring the ratings for far in the future.
