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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Is there one of these but usenet instead?
I’d share it with you but it’s missing a few blocks
Streamio with the torrentio addon for the win.
My man. Thank you
Glad i could help! It's been a godsend since someone here told me about it too
Pc phone and tablet works great. I've heard mention of a smart tv version but i don't have experience with that
Be sure to leave it open for a while so you can seed some.
Stremio on LG TV with webOS works pretty well. Definitely worth a shot.
Dumb question... But what's the rest of it?
Is it .io or?
I assume these are for torrents but I can't find them.
I have nearly the same thread with disney+. Price hiked from 89 to 139/year. I like it but not that much.
I jumped ship (lol) a year ago. Synology NAS w/ 16TB of space, Jellyfin, and Proton. Set up my family with Jellyfin on their Roku TV's. I was paying for Prime & D+. My brother provided Netflix. Lost that first. Now we're all watching what we want, when we want, and I gladly cover the cost for everyone.
We're not much for live sports, so no loss to speak of
Great minds (and evil parasites) think alike it seems lol.
Real Debrid. It’s your friend if you know how to pirate, high death content streaming so low latency it’s amazing
I used to pirate movies like the dirty pirate that I was. Now I'm training my own personal LLM for educational purpose, just like Zuck.
Netflix can go suck a fuck!!
How exactly does one "suck a fuck"?
That's for them to figure out.
Thank you, i had the quote wrong haha
Along with every corporation and wealth hoarder wringing every last penny from us.
Did you just say "suck. a. fuck!?"
Yea we canceled Netflix starting March 1st. At this point it's a bait and switch. We signed up at less than 10$ , now it's more than double. Trump announced tarrifs against Canada, 2days later we got notice from Netflix that prices are gong up 25%>>lol fuck off no.
Arrrrgh mi hearty! ☠️
Good. I hope this makes everyone more politically thoughtful and active
I hope so too. The fate of the free world depends on it, but it's not looking very good.
Anon just dropped a message to Americans.
Highly recommend a year long subscription to proton VPN and the app streamio. I use real debris and torrentio with it. The experience is better than you could ever buy with streaming services.
The big issue with Streamio is that it relies on torrents but doesn’t actually seed anything. It simply uses the torrent to cache the content, and then deletes it after you watch. Encouraging everyone to use streamio is a slow march towards killing it, because if everyone uses it nobody can.
Maybe something like Plex or Jellyfin instead. It will require a little more up-front setup, but it allows you to have a server (or just your home PC) that works as a media host. And since you’re hosting the content, you can actually seed your torrents.
Jellyfin if you like FOSS, or Plex if you need to be able to walk your mother-in-law through the setup for her TV. Jellyfin is great as far as FOSS goes, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Plex’s ease of setup.
Thank you!