this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
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Fuck Subscriptions

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Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.

Expect use of strong language.

Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.

No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.

Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.

New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.

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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Hedges Development

Privacy

Privacy Guides

DeGoogle Yourself

F-Droid

Stallman Was Right

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

Piped

Invidious

Nitter

Teddit

 

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it. They are complaning that their limited free plan is limited?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They're complaining that one of the things the limited free plan takes away is something they were using to accommodate their disability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're complaining that the limited, free-tier plan is worse than it used to be. And really, for no good reason.

When EA releases Star Wars 2: A Sense Of Pride And Accomplishment, we complain about how stupid that is, do we not?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

for no good reason

Hosting costs a lot of money

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And they run ads. The free-tier is not actually free, you know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The 1 or 2 kB of lyrics are a few orders of magnitude smaller than the song being streamed.
The album art probably takes up more space than the lyrics.
So, album art should also be a paid feature?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Album art would make way more sense as a paid feature than lyrics, considering it's a largely cosmetic improvement.