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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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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I didn't even know they did that, Glad I don't have an account with them. I'm partially deaf, most music I can't understand what someone singing. Those fun things people do of like "most common misheard lyrics" is basically my life. On the plus side I enjoy music from around the world because unintelligible music is unintelligible no matter where it's from. They're very few artists I feel like I can understand, and realistically I'm probably wrong.

In real life, I read lips to help augment my terrible hearing. Fun fact during the mask man dates during COVID, was probably the worst time for me. A lot of people I could hear talking as I could hear noise but I could not make out what it was. Leading to a lot of awkward conversations.

Anyhoo, that's all to say that for music that I do like I do have to see the lyrics. It's what converts the noise into words.

So, fuck you Spotify, My life's difficult enough already, I'm not paying your shitty service so you can charge me for my impairment.

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damn thats crazy, i'm out here with my 300GB collection of music that i own and control and i can just, add lyrics to shit if i want to.

I don't because i'm not deaf and i don't really care for lyrics all that much, but it's also just, automated.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess deaf people aren't allowed to enjoy music like the rest of y'all.

I'm so sorry but this is the absolute funniest shit I have ever read. 😂

[–] lenz@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Being deaf is a spectrum. There are plenty of people who still have some hearing, and are “hard of hearing”. There’s deaf people who can enjoy music through the use of hearing aids as well. There’s also totally deaf people who can enjoy music because of the vibrations. There’s people whose hearing is just bad enough that they don’t understand what anyone is saying without subtitles/lyrics. Deaf in only one ear, etc.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a bit confused. Do deaf people listen to music? Lyrics are generally freely available via Google.

Edit: see reply for a good explanation.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 months ago

Deafness covers a broad spectrum of hearing difficulty, not just completely deaf. Most people that identify as deaf still have some hearing. I always forget that and had the same question as you until I read a comment further down.

It's likely that the person isn't fully deaf and so can still hear some music, but deaf enough that they can't understand the lyrics. Having the ability to view the lyrics in real time is handy rather than having to search them up all the time. Spotify also shows what lyric is currently being sung in real time, whereas you can't get that with a Google search.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Agreed.

I spent the last month converting all of my Spotify likes to MP3 files and ended my subscription in Mid-June.

Their greedy, shrinkflating, enshittifying asshole CEO can go fuck himself.

[–] CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How would one go about this? So I can avoid doing it accidentally, of course.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Well, I'm not advising that you do this, but I've read that there are tools on the Internet for converting Youtube links into MP3 files, and even better, I've read that the quality is a jump up from what Spotify streams to your device.

Interesting reading.

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