#anti subscription

[aspiring-geek83]

My Innoasis Y1 managed to unclip itself from my laptop bag without me noticing, which is very annoying - especially since I went through the trouble of opening the thing to replace the dodgy microSD card.

As much as I enjoyed the click wheel on it, I found it too quiet and a little buggy.

I originally considered the Snowsky Echo Mini and went with the more premium version of that, the Echo. It arrived today, together with the matching leatherette case.

Look at this thing!

Also... oops, all Millennial Green, featuring my Kobo Sage.

[featherquilt1988]

I know this is going to make me sound like an old fogey, but if you cannot market your entertainment product as a piece of physical media, I simply do not want it.

I will watch the source material on a DVD, listen to it on a CD, play it on a game card, or read it in a book.

And then, I will turn to the internet to see what fanart, fanfics, analyses, jokes, and memes my fellow enjoyers have made about it.

The end.

("Oh, but you're missing out on--!" I don't care. I have plenty of decades-old franchises I enjoy already. If I have to live off of them for the rest of my life, and never experience new shows/games/music/publications/etc. that can't be bothered to turn physical, then so be it. I want to own permanent access to the stories and characters I enjoy. I don't want to get attached to stories and characters that could be deleted at a streaming service's whim.)

[gor3sigil]

As much as I beg writers to not put their books ONLY on Amazon, I beg musicians to not release their music ONLY on streaming platforms.

I know it's convenient lots of ways and they worked hard to make both artists and consumers dependent on their platforms but if we're going to try and take it down, I need people to make their own websites where we can buy independantly. I want nothing MORE than buy shit FROM artists.

And I'm not even speaking about physical releases that cost a lot of money. Put your music on Bandcamp or online linked to Paypal. Offer your books digitally on itch.io, where you can put your games too.

Diversify your platforms and format of your art, share it on more independent online and physical spaces, distribute it via mail, social medias, have an online wallet where people can buy and tip you !

I'm a very, very small artist myself, and maybe I'm super naive about all that and it's just not possible but if it is, do it. It's the only way out.

[high-sea-husbands]

“What? Are you seriously don’t pay for it, not watching legally? You should ALWAYS pay—

Actually what if you just shut up

[gor3sigil]

I recently stopped using Spotify. The one thing that prevented me to do so was that I wasn't able to support artists without it because albums, even digital, tend to be a bit expensive and I'm not in a position where I can currently afford it + the slow death of physical discs makes it next to impossible to get a second hand copy of RECENT releases for a better price. Especially indie ones because most of the time they release like 100 to 500 copies of cassettes/CDs/Vinyls and that's it.

So back to 🏴‍☠️. I'll try to buy a couple of my fav releases a month to support artists. But Spotify, I can't anymore. Not only does it really NOT support artists, but the CEO is pro Palestinian g3n0cide, and just to be honest, I HATE subscription/streaming shit. It killed so much of the joy of curating a collection, it also became really not so affordable as it was, you don't own anything anymore, everything is slowly becoming subscription based and that is not something that I want to partake on. I'm sorry, but I'd rather steal than contribute to a system that robs both creators AND consummers with a false "but it's cheaper for THIS MUCH content !" crap.

And if we want to have a sliver of a chance to ever own the things we pay for, I encourage everyone to do the same.

[waywardsou2]

You guys can still do the right thing and interact with media that has been produced or sponsored by bad companies.

Piracy exists! Use it!

People go out of their way to make media and content free on platforms in line for just this purpose. You aren't giving anyone shit if you pirate what you're watching/playing.

Don't buy a subscription to anything use free pirating websites that can be found with a simple search on Google and trip to Reddit.

Don't let them take away your right to watch media, use your freedom against them and don't pay for what you want to see

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But also on that point. Support indie studios and developers with good morals and clear standards for workers.

Choose the production company that pays it's workers well, that support their fans and charities. That are verbally and socially against bad companies and regimes