Yep. Disney+ (for now).
Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.
What’s stupid of them is that if they’d stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.
Yep. Disney+ (for now).
Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.
What’s stupid of them is that if they’d stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.
I don’t mind Spotify increasing.
Inflation is real. And nobody wants to see the service turn into a Little Caesars “$5 Hot N Ready” pizza that erodes in quality, rather than gradually price increase with inflation.
The advantage we have with music streamers is that nearly ALL the content is on ALL the services. So, if one service goes bananas with pricing, we can jump ship to a cheaper one.
But TV is siloed into mini monopolies. The only source of capitalism competition they face is use choosing to do without. And frankly, if I’m gonna be forced-fed ads, I choose to do it on YouTube which costs me $0 and not $7.99 a month.
Netflix is gone. And as someone who leaves The Simpsons running 24/7 on Disney+, I’m frankly getting thiiiiiiiiiis close to dumping their asses, too!
Now we can doomscroll Lemmy!
Yep. Would have gladly paid $10 a month for Gold had it included API access for RiF (only fair, since I’m skipping the ads).
But noooooooo. Reddit didn’t want my money, evidently. So, after 11 years of a VERY active account (made or commented on 10-15k posts over that time), I deleted and left.
It’s fine. Lemmy stretches that itch to “scroll” something. And I can use whatever damn app I want.
I’d complain, except it hasn’t gone up in a decade.
Prices needs to go up a little bit every year to reflect CPI and inflation.
I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.
The guy is straight up insane. He’s obsessed with the letter X.
But I don’t care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.
I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don’t mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.
For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.
Doesn’t it literally mean “whore-son” (huren-sohn)?
My German is poor.
No kidding.
I’m feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: “You’re either with us, or we’ll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism”
Disney Plus. I can share it with my out-of-state parents with no trouble. And it’s such a great way to watch The Simpsons constantly in the background.
Since Netflix went bonkers and I had to cancel it, D+ is my go-to app. Hopefully they don’t go stupid like Netflix, too.
Same here.
There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can’t see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.
But that’s it.
I feel like the past 3 weeks I’ve moved to a new city. And I’m discovering new communities here.
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Wait until they see “Smoke Hub” in Bakersfield, CA.
It’s literally the porn hub logo.