The backlash is generally against all enshitification.
Or, as we call it, the principle of the thing.
If people are thinking “I don’t care, I got mine”, they need to learn why that elitism is wrong.
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xenoclast@lemmy.world 6 months agoThe backlash is generally against all enshitification.
You get a useful free plan. Make it useless over time to convince people to pay for a plan. Make THAT plan useless over time to make people pay for the more expensive plan… repeat until capitalism ends.
That’s why people care.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
drmoose@lemmy.world 6 months ago
but it’s a free plan and if you can’t afford 5-15$/mo for unlimited music and can afford to spend time complaining about this then you have some much bigger problems in your life.
lud@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s free 🤷
Also the free tier was worse when it launched.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeha, but they can make their free tier as shitty as they want, it is their product…
If you don’t want to pay, just use one of the thousands tools to pirate music. If you don’t want to pay but still think you deserve a product with all the features you like, then you’re delusional.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Who suggested they couldn’t? Having the right to do something doesn’t mean no one else can voice their displeasure.
It has nothing to do with “deserve”. Shitty businesses practices are worth being called out. Especially because this has nothing to do with supporting Spotify and everything to do with enriching stockholders. It’s a sign of desperation: they can’t make their product better to entice new customers, so they’re making their free product worse. It’s trashy and greedy.
But please go on expending your energy defending a corporation from valid criticism.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I agree, but this isn’t one of those cases. Netflix, Disney, and Amazon adding ads to their paid products is worth calling out. Microsoft adding ads to their paid OS is worth calling out. Roku changing the rules and forcing people to agree to arbitration after purchase of a TV is worth calling out.
But Spotify putting lyrics behind their paid service isn’t like that at all. You can easily get lyrics with an Internet search, it’s a non-issue. Either pay or look it up yourself.
So I agree with the person you’re responding to, it’s not worthwhile criticism. I have no problem with corporations making money, I have a problem with corporations abusing their position to screw over customers, and Spotify has been remarkably well-behaved.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Right, I used their free for so long that I even started enjoying the lack of control I had. Like, music would just play for me. I bought the subscription because I really wanted to give them the money. I recall their ads even being only about Spotify premium, so I wouldn’t get random shit like YouTube ads.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
LTT mentioned some time ago on the Wanshow about how gaking away is destroying more goodwill than adding new stuff only to the premium tier.
This is probably why most are so worked up about the issue.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yes, but, like comma splices, we get to judge them.
mihies@kbin.social 6 months ago
If you don't want to pay, then don't use it. Regardless of everything, music producers still need to live and pirating is a shit move to help them.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If I won’t pay, pirating isn’t going to take money away from them. Yeha, I know it is stealing, I won’t pretend it isn’t like many do, but hey, if they are giving me a shit service, they left me no choice.
I pay for most of what I consume but when I have no choice, I pirate. I do pay for Spotify premium, I don’t even mind the free tier, I just wanted to give them the money because their app is great.
mihies@kbin.social 6 months ago
Kudos for paying Spotify (as I do). I disagree on "if they give me shit service" part. If that happens, you have an option to either switch service or don't use any of them. IMO pirating is not an option. Also when pirating though P2P, you also distribute the content.