t3rmit3, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago)

Honestly, there is so much art and so many services and tools out there, that I try to avoid sending money towards ones made by shitty people.

I loved HP as a kid, but I’m not going to support JKR’s dullard takes on trans people. It’s clear she knows literally nothing beyond what her transphobic friend and their wine club “LGB Alliance” of straight white women tell her, but she still feels the need to parrot it online in front of millions of people. And guess what? There are other books about magic out there.

In terms of my judgement criteria, it’s not some fixed system, but my 2 main considerations are:

• How much does a bad person benefit financially from the product?
• How much are bad people responsible for the creation of the product?

Generally-speaking, if either of those can be answered with “A lot”, I avoid it.

So for instance, in the case of Hogwarts: Legacy, while JKR wasn’t responsible for making the product almost at all, she publicly indicated that she was making a lot of money from it, so I did not purchase it.

Ditto for AWS; once I was able to afford a cheap refurb server, I shut down my AWS accounts and been self-hosting everything.