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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (4 children)

streaming has absolutely no future. if they keep pulling shit like this it's going to decline even faster. i suppose it's more about sucking off advertisers than it is pleasing customers, too....if you're going to fail anyway why can't you at least make a positive difference in the world?

[–] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are their profits going down?

[–] wagoner@infosec.pub 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It will be like the Netflix exodus, the reddit exodus, etc. They'll make more money. The best you can do is be true to yourself and not participate if you don't want to.

[–] gorogorochan@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, this. Average consumer, and I don’t mean it as an insult, will not look for an alternative to streaming. All these giant streaming companies are gauging how far they can go to increase the profit margins.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm a technically savvy average consumer. I've just been accepting the enshitification. It feels like every month a different company is raising prices.

I'm about ready to put on an eye patch and fly the Jolly Roger at this point.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

My prediction is that it all goes back to Netflix when they decide it’s not worth the time and expense to run their own services. They had a nice passive income thing going on there for many years and can have it again if they just license their IP again.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

streaming has absolutely no future.

Streaming isn't going anywhere, and if anything will likely continue to grow for as cable dies off. It's just going to consolidate and get shittier (ads) as basically things move back to a model more cable-like. Piracy will probably ramp back to like levels for music in the early 2000's, but it will remain a niche. Amazon specifically will see blowback for this, but it's unlikely to move many off of Prime since it's sort of a tertiary benefit to having a Prime membership, and even if it's all you got for your Prime membership, it's still one of the cheapest streaming services.

[–] Zevlen@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

We need open source streaming or something... Ya kno?

Ppl should make their own YouTube Amazon / Google companies or else we shall all perish do to advertisements