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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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That's it, that's enough. The 20% of Netflix content worth watching can easily be found elsewhere, matey.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] octoblade 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there one of these but usenet instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’d share it with you but it’s missing a few blocks

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Streamio with the torrentio addon for the win.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Be sure to leave it open for a while so you can seed some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Stremio on LG TV with webOS works pretty well. Definitely worth a shot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No worries. Here's a FAQ for it:
https://torrentio.org/install/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have nearly the same thread with disney+. Price hiked from 89 to 139/year. I like it but not that much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Great minds (and evil parasites) think alike it seems lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Real Debrid. It’s your friend if you know how to pirate, high death content streaming so low latency it’s amazing

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Netflix can go suck a fuck!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How exactly does one "suck a fuck"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's for them to figure out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you, i had the quote wrong haha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Along with every corporation and wealth hoarder wringing every last penny from us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Did you just say "suck. a. fuck!?"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You've now given up

because they've let you down

and they've run around and deserted you

Since they've made you cry

now you're gonna say goodbye

because they've told a lie that hurt you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Arrrrgh mi hearty! ☠️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good. I hope this makes everyone more politically thoughtful and active

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope so too. The fate of the free world depends on it, but it's not looking very good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Anon just dropped a message to Americans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago