We’re in a closed loop with this shit. Just like with cable TV, the more people quit using it, the more they will gouge the remaining customers. Because greed and laziness are more important to these companies than affordability or product value to their customers. Their customers are just rubes to be exploited.
What pisses me off is the way they pass movies and shows amongst each other and arbitrarily drop them from their platforms to pull this artificial scarcity nonsense. Oh you want to watch this movie? We don’t have it anymore, better sign up for that other service. Or, sorry this movie from the 60s is unavailable on any service, but you can “rent” it for $10/24hrs. Then there is the app causing grief for no good reason (cough Paramount), or two many people are watching the same thing and the CDN isn’t scaled appropriately for a service you already pay too much for, or you can’t watch Netflix in a browser on Linux because DRM, or we decided your HDMI cable is not up to our spec requirements, even though it was gone 5 minutes ago, because fuck you. And then on top of it all, the quality from every streaming provider is dog shit.
And do the companies care? Nope, not one bit. What are you gonna do about it, not watch TV? In 2025? Get with the program pleb, now bend over and shit benjamins to keep your wife and kids occupied.
You know which service doesn’t have all these issues? My damn home server, and the quality is fantastic. And all it costs me is the electricity (but let’s not talk about my power bill).
No. Netflix’s earnings actually shows very high user growth recently. Their earnings was a week ago and they had an increase of 19 million subscribers in Q4 2024 - even higher than their COVID growth.
On top of that, their net profit went from $938m in 2023 to $1.9bn in 2024.
From a business perspective, Netflix is absolutely killing it right now.
I’ve cancelled, and so have some others on Lemmy, but we’re an absolutely tiny amount of people. Fuck Netflix. Self-hosting isn’t as hard as it initially seems.
I know I have, and several friends and family have. And the fact that there’s been a lot of discussion online from people expressing their frustration and disappointment about price increases and dwindling value, makes me think that it’s a broader trend.
Yes I have been here for there discussions since the price gouging started and I personally only got 1 streamer.
However, I am pretty sure Netflix numbers are up others ones are not growing. But I don’t think people are actually existing yet in any significant numbers.
We’re in a closed loop with this shit. Just like with cable TV, the more people quit using it, the more they will gouge the remaining customers. Because greed and laziness are more important to these companies than affordability or product value to their customers. Their customers are just rubes to be exploited.
What pisses me off is the way they pass movies and shows amongst each other and arbitrarily drop them from their platforms to pull this artificial scarcity nonsense. Oh you want to watch this movie? We don’t have it anymore, better sign up for that other service. Or, sorry this movie from the 60s is unavailable on any service, but you can “rent” it for $10/24hrs. Then there is the app causing grief for no good reason (cough Paramount), or two many people are watching the same thing and the CDN isn’t scaled appropriately for a service you already pay too much for, or you can’t watch Netflix in a browser on Linux because DRM, or we decided your HDMI cable is not up to our spec requirements, even though it was gone 5 minutes ago, because fuck you. And then on top of it all, the quality from every streaming provider is dog shit.
And do the companies care? Nope, not one bit. What are you gonna do about it, not watch TV? In 2025? Get with the program pleb, now bend over and shit benjamins to keep your wife and kids occupied.
You know which service doesn’t have all these issues? My damn home server, and the quality is fantastic. And all it costs me is the electricity (but let’s not talk about my power bill).
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Hence, piracy is a service problem. Capitalism clearly can’t be trusted to provide the services without extortion.
Quoting a successful capitalist (Gaben), who excelled at making money by giving us what we want, to bag on capitalism. That is some peak lemmy.
Are people quiting tho?
No. Netflix’s earnings actually shows very high user growth recently. Their earnings was a week ago and they had an increase of 19 million subscribers in Q4 2024 - even higher than their COVID growth.
On top of that, their net profit went from $938m in 2023 to $1.9bn in 2024.
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From a business perspective, Netflix is absolutely killing it right now.
I’ve cancelled, and so have some others on Lemmy, but we’re an absolutely tiny amount of people. Fuck Netflix. Self-hosting isn’t as hard as it initially seems.
I got zero problem with people participating in voluntary rape. I won’t play, but the rape is on them.
What? Voluntary rape?
I know I have, and several friends and family have. And the fact that there’s been a lot of discussion online from people expressing their frustration and disappointment about price increases and dwindling value, makes me think that it’s a broader trend.
Yes I have been here for there discussions since the price gouging started and I personally only got 1 streamer.
However, I am pretty sure Netflix numbers are up others ones are not growing. But I don’t think people are actually existing yet in any significant numbers.
Yet…
Yarr