Why Subscriptions Make Everything More Expensive

#Subscription services exist for nearly everything consumers buy. Many, like #Netflix or #Spotify, start out affordable, but the cost adds up over time. And while signing up is effortless, cancelling can be difficult.

Companies such as #Adobe and #Amazon have even been accused by the Federal Trade Commission of using dark patterns to trap consumers in subscriptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIwY

Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive

YouTube

I host my own movies and tv shows with self-hosted Emby
https://emby.media or https://jellyfin.org

Music I self-host with Koel including mobile app!
https://github.com/koel/koel

Emby

media server for personal streaming videos tv music photos in mobile app or browser for all devices android iOS windows phone appletv androidtv smarttv and dlna

Emby

@stux I'm in the process of setting up a jellyfin server

Seems to work quite well so far

@stux TIL about Koel, looks pretty nifty.
@stux More money can be made from you if you have to rent and can never own. We’ve been increasingly skewing to rentier capitalism over the last few decades, which is one of the many reasons things are turning to crap.

@stux

Another example of. . . enshittification?