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What subscription finally gave you "subscription fatigue"? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 year ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

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[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 74 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Netflix, and when they said I'd have to pay for password sharing for my stepkids, because they use my account when they're at their dad's.

That was the last straw. I cracked the shits, bought a couple of ex-enterprise servers, and setup ... something different. I then cancelled all streaming services (I got wind of the second Disney hike coming).

The cool thing is they now email me with cheap rejoin offers, telling me about all the cool shows I need to be aware of. ;)

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

How are your kids coping with, uh, something different? I imagine it's a tad less convenient, even with your server. Also, I haven't done something different since the rise of Netflix. Is the quality of something different generally higher with streaming services just putting their content on the internet themselves?

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I self host my stuff with Plex and it's really not any less convenient than Netflix or whatever else.

[–] AnaGram@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, my son put together a machine to use as a PLEX server & I log in and watch things from across town. It works perfectly fine.

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