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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wombat-man 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want them to keep renewing it.

I subscribe to ad-free versions of services so I don't really run into ads a lot unless I'm trying to watch something live on TV.

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jasonvorhe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Irrelevant to me. The amount of TV shows I enjoyed that got canned after S01 has burnt me so much that I wait until I know if there's a sensible finale at the end or if it ends on a cliffhanger that'll never be resolved before I even dive into a new show.

	▲	emsign 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Firefly cries

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roboror 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make.

Social discourse is also heavily weighted

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squigz 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> I torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want them to keep renewing it.

I wonder if any of them track torrent metrics for this reason.

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NegativeLatency 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s better than ever with stuff like jellyfin/plex and all the sonarr/radarr… apps. I’ve been running bitmagnet too which has been great for actually finding torrents.

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emsign 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also collect discarded physical media, there's still lots of people who want to get rid of their collections for nothing because of "Dude, there's streaming now, duh."

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kwar13 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> back to torrenting

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

	▲	an0malous 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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CSMastermind 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm almost back there at this point given how annoying streaming services are getting.