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  • scorpious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Can’t help but think that the all-too prevalent (here, at least) attitude that one shouldn’t have to pay anything, or very, very little, for quality content has a lot to do with it.

    • thepaperpilot@incremental.social
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      8 months ago

      I honestly think that philosophy is fine. Before the major social media sites all came about, the Internet was filled with much smaller communities that didn’t need to be profitable or scalable - they could be run by an individual as a hobby project. I think returning to that (possibly with the use of federation so these small communities still have a good amount of content) could keep things free, ad free, and privacy conscious

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      8 months ago

      Nah. Netflix used to be a reasonable price and a very decent alternative to the rip off prices of cable and satellite TV.

      Then of course every other media company wanted to charge the same price each time splitting off shows that used to be on Netflix.

      It’s reached the point that it would cost the same ripoff prices to get all the services needed for most people to watch what they’d like to watch.

      This is just too much to pay per household per month for entertainment.

      Bring back one service that provides all the TV (not even movies) for less than 30usd/25 gbp and I’m there. But I’m not subscribing to them all. It’s ridiculous.