this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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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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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

... and nothing of value will be lost by this action.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

good, we won't read those either.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

No. Dont. Stop.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Yup. Good riddance

Damn. Anyways…

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imagine paying to read CNN, specifically. There are respectable newspapers that people won’t pay for.

It’ll backfire and they’ll fall back on more ads. 10 minutes of ads for every 2 minutes of political talk shows. On their website, an ad between every paragraph.

[–] 1984 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only time I even see CNN is on American movies where characters have it on the TV in the background :) Lols.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It use to be a legitimate and good news organization covering providing some history making reporting for events in the last 30 years or so. CNN got a new owner/leadership with conservative leanings a few years ago and now its news quality ranges from "suspect" to "straight to the waste bin".

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s all clickbait anyway like Huffington Pissed.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

The site nowadays is 10% news, 90% celebrity colon cleanse reviews. If their main biz is cable news just pretend they don't exist

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Zier@fedia.io -3 points 1 month ago

Lock all the articles up at the Cunt Newz Netwerk. No one is interested in your fascist word salad. There are dirty bathroom stalls with more news facts on them than your website.