Subs? Not sure if that’s the right term on here.

  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Apparently you and I have polar opposite tastes in those areas. Risa was the first thing I blocked and I’ve been slowly working my way through blocking all the Piracy communities.

    I’m here for formula 1, mechanical keyboards, and obscure stuff like weirdly specific playlists.

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      1 year ago

      Where’s the mechanical keyboard communities? Not that I need to see any more kb things to waste my money on. 😂

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        No, but not being able to have a reasonable discussion with another person without them resorting to nonsense arguments of no merit or personal attacks does bother me.

        I have made the personal choice that YouTube premium is a valuable service to me and that I would rather pay for it than go through the rigmarole of PiHole/ad blockers/ripping.

        Apparently that makes me a sheep, retard, loser, bitch to corporations, boot licker, dick, uneducated, fuckwad. Just to name a few.

        I believe downloading a digital copy of your property is 100% your right. ONLY after you have paid full price for it in a legal manner and if at all possible in physical media.

        Apparently that means I’m a slave to the media, a Republican(?), don’t believe in personal rights, and am advocating for a return to absolute monarchy’s.

        I believe that it is better to pay for services (even if they are created by mega corporations) and give money directly to the content creators whenever possible. Disney/Marvel, for instance, is massive and has many issues. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t create things that never existed before and deserve to be paid.

        Apparently I’m no better than a terrorist against human rights, have no decency, must have had brain damage, and am begging to be ass raped by the elite just to be told I’m a good little consumer.

        I believe that the definition of a hypocrite is somebody spouting their beliefs that all ads are evil, mega - corporations deserve to die, and that no content service deserves their money and then also screaming about work reform, and not getting paid a fair living wage, all jobs matter, etc.

        Apparently this makes me a proponent for being a wage slave, a blinded consumerist, a white collar elitist who was raised to keep the people down, and a politician dick/cunt sucker, and a worshiper of alphabet, apple, Facebook, twitter and the like.

        I loathe what reddit became but the general level of discourse was far more reasonable and measured then what I have experienced here on Lemmy. It’s actually frustrating. What happened to being able to disagree with someone and talk about it in measured responses and open discourse?

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          I feel like you’re the one sane person who’s willing to voice their opinions. While I do agree that piracy is a service problem in many cases, it’s genuinely insane how quickly the goalpost changes when the service in question is paid. Not enough people realize that creatives can’t make content without a budget to work with, and that budget has to come from somewhere.

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            It feels like goalpost moving has become a national past time for most places.

            The thing I currently struggle with, but haven’t found an answer to, is deciding where the balance lies between affordable services and content creators earning an appropriate living.

            I absolutely love Spotify. My current job has me listening to music for nearly 11 hours a day not including what gets played at home. Leaving aside the issue of discoverability, if I had to buy all the different albums I listen to from all the different artists I listen to my music budget would be a significant percentage of my yearly income.

            I am keenly aware that Spotify does not pay the musicians well. The current compromise that I have is I buy albums or merch from the artists that I listen to the most or up and comings I want to support. Not perfect but it works right now.

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              I mean other services do pay music creators a lot more, namely Tidal and Apple Music. My issue is that I hate the idea of supporting Apple, and Spotify has unique social features that other services don’t.