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1741 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 05 Dec 25 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jasonvorhe ◴[05 Dec 25 14:50 UTC] No.46162030[source]▶
I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions everywhere inside their apps I would've cancelled any remaining subscription at the latest.
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kwar13 ◴[05 Dec 25 15:23 UTC] No.46162478[source]▶
> back to torrenting

lots of people have, and we've come now full circle. I wonder if it was inevitable.

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1. an0malous ◴[05 Dec 25 15:48 UTC] No.46162851[source]▶
In a society that’s built on the foundations of perpetual profit growth it is. Sometimes you just can’t innovate, so instead of improving the product you cut the costs and enshittify. We’re in an enshittification regime right now.

Why are there alternating cycles of innovation and enshittification? I think it’s because investors are always trying to pull forward profit, but because they only have a 10 year horizon on investment strategy they tend to create cycles that are around that same period. If there was less investment, the innovation would be slower but the reactionary enshittification would be lessened too.