It’s quite something how they’re trying to force the Internet to work as an artificial version of things we already have, instead of using it for the unique purposes which it can actually fulfill.
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They want the old cable tv days back, but worse
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Libra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They want the old cable TV days, but worse, and filling their pockets instead.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
Youtube is also trying to be more like TV. Apparently, TV wasn’t bad enough.
deathbird@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Nice thing is it can’t come back. There are too many other sources of entertainment and information to make one feel like one is missing out by simply opting out.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Libra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the exact same thing cable did when it came out.
Libra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No, but companies are made of individual people who get more or less greedy with time, like most other attributes of people. Which is why I said ‘people got greedy’.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
For ages the four nations lived in harmony…
11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Way late to the party cuz im browsing top posts for the week, but you reminded me of how I refused to believe my father when he said cable TV used to be ad free. He said it was the whole point of paying for it back then cuz paying for TV didn’t exist yet.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Way late to the party cuz im browsing top posts for the week, but you reminded me of how I refused to believe my father when he said cable TV used to be ad free. He said it was the whole point of paying for it back then cuz paying for TV didn’t exist yet.