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What subscription finally gave you "subscription fatigue"? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 year ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It started with the Netflix enshittification. I have had a Spotify and Netflix account essentially since these services were available, and that was great. Now only the Spotify sub is worth it, though I started to loathe that one as well because it at some point deleted all my local files or replaced them with what it thought matched them in their database.

Also every fucking app, no matter how mundane, wants to sell me a subscription. I have a web based game boy emulator on my phone, it works fine but everything beyond the absolute basic functions is paywalled behind a subscription. Not even a one time purchase.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bro. RetroArch, gambatte or MGBA core. Thank me later.

[–] flat@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

if you truly need something web based, eclipse is completely free.

[–] Caitlynn@feddit.de -4 points 1 year ago

This

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it requires a subscription, it doesn't exist.

That attitude has served me well. So far, at least.

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't do mail though, I know some do and are successful but mail is too important for me (and everyone subjected to my technical whims) to fuck it up.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I meant software and media. With mail, somebody's running a server and policing spammers, which costs time and money.

[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enshittification didn't kill Netflix. What killed it was all the studios pulling their content licenses so they could start their own Netflix. Enshittification happened afterwards as Netflix desperately tried to make itself constantly profitable. They killed a lot of good shows and messed with the algorithm that showed people what they actually wanted to see.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know what happened, I was there… Guess I should have used a different term for all the content being in one place for a good price shifting to being in a dozen places for exorbitant prices each than enshittification.

[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm torn between feeling bad for Netflix because they tried to do something cool and got the rug pulled out from under them as soon as it started to work, and mad at them for fucking up their algorithm and studio so badly