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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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I don't think Spotify was created with deaf people in mind.

That would be the problem.

how would they charge people who can hear, but offer the service for free to those who can't?

This sounds like an engineering problem. Account types, customer service, some kind of medical qualification proving it, I don't know.

They could also just... not separate lyrics from the free-tier at all.

I mean, painfully missing from this discussion is that hiding the lyrics of the song you're listening to, which they definitely have, behind a paywall is... absolutely bizarre.

To my ears, this is like finding out Spotify's new free-tier model limits song listens to exactly 2 minutes, and if the song is longer than that, "well, you can listen to the whole thing with a new Premium subscription!" Yeah, I guess I could, huh. God forbid we have anything nice in this country.