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THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.

• the best advice an AI ever gave (too bad it was a fictional AI)

Fuckin’ A on this one. Think about how much companies make with entirely artificial scarcity. You can only add 1 license to this, you can only watch on one TV unless you pay us $15 a month. It costs $200 to change where you are in the database table for this flight. Complete bullshit and we need to see it for what it is and stop it. I love how she says all that will be left in their wake is dull capitalists. Exactly. Stop playing their games. Play your game.

Wasn't so long ago that someone would get laughed out of a room for taking the internet this seriously. People never planned for the inevitability of the internet being central to modern life, and, years later, here we are.

So, to whomever needs to hear it: Maybe start taking things like what this person is saying a little more seriously going forward.

NewPipe is great on my phone, SmartTube for my TV. I tried showing others but it's like they don't think that there is a problem. I use Arch btw.

Stop using Discord if you care for the internet. Seriously, Discord is the internet but privatized. It’s the precursor of the future of the internet that capitalists want. Access only available if you login. Search is useless for anything older than a week. Data not accessible to search engines, even on public servers. Need to use their bloated (web)app. Charges for basic functions. Stop 👏 using👏 Discord👏 What is wrong with good old forums.

And Twitter is going the same direction as Discord.

It's crazy how little the younger generation knows about torrenting. With my younger brothwr and his friend we couldn't find a movie in any of the streaming services and I told them I would download it in less than 5 minutes, they didn't understand how that was possible but were impressed when I did it. We need to keep the art alive

If you can't pirate it, it's not worth the money to rent it

I only disagree when it comes to paying creators for their content. I pay for a single streaming service, and that's just because it directly supports the people running the service and making the content.

I'm more than happy to pay creators more or less directly for content, but I'm definitely not supporting shit services like Hulu and Netflix.

I say this as a creator; it is not stealing to take something that can be replicated infinitely without cost.

this post is 100% right, anyway stop buying phones, you don't need them.

I wish to go even further.

Remember when the internet was prviate, anonymous, cool, and had more than three websites?

I'm okay with paying for Internet services if the price is right... I'm not okay with also getting milked (data mined) for profit in addition to paying.

Also work on not being such a dopamine hound. I don't need to see new-show this year. Or this decade. I'll see it eventually. Or never. Who cares.

Know what's as good as music? The wind in the trees.

Not saying I'm some ascetic who doesn't enjoy media, but when I hit a paywall or an adwall I just try to say "ok, see ya later" and move on letting that content desire slip from my mind.

lesbian-moon-gf is a goddess of curmudgeonry and I am now her high priestess

Not being able to use every server emoji on Discord is actually a good safeguard for NSFW spamming, because when trolls have to pay to be obnoxious, they usually stop doing it.

I agree on the premise as a whole, though. Our entire lives are getting enshittified with subscription models, designed to prey on those who forget to cancel or otherwise don't have the means or knowledge to get rid of it

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Self host on your desktop or laptop. Freedom is yours in FOSS.

Also: https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/

I recently setup magnetico and tuned its crawling to not be super disruptive to my network (ISP's shitty router doesn't have enough RAM to maintain a stateful firewall for NAT for all the sockets magnetico likes to open).

And slowly, I've been accumulating torrent hashes. In a couple of months, I'm up to 118k+. I've considered trying to merge in other people's magnetico databases. The point is to maintain my own search for torrents to avoid the the whack-a-mole that stupid governments play with torrent search sites.

A buddy of mine swears by usenet and uses a pretty cheap option for access.

All of that said about piracy: Support creators in your life. Cut off parasites.

Wish I could get my dad to get this. I tell him I use an adblocker, he says why? He's never been bothered by it. His generation grew up in a technologically inconvenient time that he now glorifies today's streaming services, not seeing how they are enshittified. It's sad and I wish I could get him to understand.

I'm so glad that after signing up, Lemmy quickly showcased to me posts about opensource/ public alternatives for the apps/websites we normally use. It brings me such a reignited passion. In time I'm gonna change my email, cloud services, OS... Everything!

"If you can't pirate it."

That's a skill issue.

If you have android you can also use Firefox to play YouTube in the background or when the screen is locked.

For every person with the discipline to ignore subscription based services there are hundreds who go "but I don't get ads if I do"

Oh, dear child, you have already succumbed, you're part of the machine, and you don't even know it. 😔 "This form of the Internet" == you are a consumer, passively ingesting the content created by the few, big players who gatekeep the marketplace of ideas. This is the Internet the capitalists want; you're just grousing about the details of paying for it.

The old promise of revolutionary change on the Internet was the idea that it would be an all-to-all media, that the users would create the content, and shape the message. So if you want to fight what the Internet is becoming, stop fighting the capitalists on their own turf. They don't care if some people pirate their stuff, as long as the money rolls in from the masses.

The best the can possibly happen if you teach everybody to pirate is to destroy the funding for content creation. Then all that will be left is the propaganda, the political ads, the messages pushed by somebody for ulterior motives. Unless...

Unless we teach the children to break that paradigm altogether. A person can live a happy life without any Hulu shows, or YouTube algorithms, or AAA games. Really. Become the creators. Leave the corporate walled gardens for the open, peer-to-peer Internet.

Or don't. It's hard, I know. Just don't pretend that your Jellyfin server means you've broken free of the system.

We need more texts like these. Different people respond to different kinds of content/appeals. I personally very much agree with this but I think some people would reject the entire idea because they might draw their line at piracy; which can be shifted, and I think that's why we need way more of these messages

Here's the problem: the alternative is ads, and I don't think the ad model is sustainable.

Fun fact, waterfox or other GECKO browsers let you open YT in browser mode which cannot detect if your phone screen is on or not.