You have to be aggressively not paying attention to anyone else on Lemmy to feel like you’re the only person with subscription fatigue.
The equivalent of going into /pol/ like “does anyone else feel tired of woke liberals??”
I almost can’t think of an audience more receptive to this “DAE?” short of a FSF meetup.
How to deal with subscription fatigue:
I’ve gone all-in.
My source of fatigue is now maintaining updates to my own jellyfin, mail, webdav/carddav, wordpress, xmpp, backups and whatever else I’m selfhosting to escape this hell.
Then the wife goes out and gets Netflix and Disney+ anyway.
i wish it was real, especially terabyte amount
Right? It’s an old meme, so revisiting it in today’s economy is like, “She has a huge hard drive! Get her!”
5 TB of mostly DVD-quality ripped media will have to suffice for now. 😮💨
damn…her collection is bigger than mine
Futureproof comics (and all fiction really) by making the numbers bigger than currently realistic - works only for a little while.
Jellyfin itself, however, will become a household name.
20 TB is pretty much what I have for my whole server. It’s just a lil guy. 10 years ago it would have been really nice though.
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I’ve decided I’m not participating in anything that bills me on a recurring basis unless I absolutely have to. Phone bill? Have to. Car wash membership? Absolutely fucking not. Mortgage? Yes. Meal delivery plan? Fuck you. Internet? Necessary. Walmart + membership? STFU Walton Goggins!
We dropped all our streaming and a lot of other subscriptions and honestly haven’t missed them. We changed how we did a few things, we buy less in general, and buy from more local places. And rely more on free groups and other similar resources. Mostly we’ve accepted a bit more inconvenience and delay (if I really want to watch something I’ll see if it’s easy to get online, otherwise we’ll buy a dvd from a place, ask around on our free groups, or order it used on ebay (which is still bad for a few reasons but I’d say not as bad as amazon)). Sometimes it’s annoying when we really want to watch something tonight and it’s a week out at soonest but it’s not a big deal.
I don’t have a subscription fatigue, but I do have subscription anxiety because I do not have a stable income, so I never know if I run out of money next week or next month.
I used to “subscribe” (set up monthly autopayment donations) to Signal messenger, animal shelters, mental health for veterans in Ukraine, and paid membership in local ecoactivist group; did this because non-profits benefit from recurring donations more. But I had to cancel all of that too.
So right now I am at 0 digital subscriptions (no streaming, no premium, no AI, no memberships etc.)
⛵🏴☠️🦜 Yarr
I avoid subscription fatigue by not subscribing (unless it’s a utility).
My policy is to refuse all subscriptions outside of 1 MMO of my choice. I can only subscribe to 1 at a time, though.
I pirate everything else. It’s been very easy and more convenient than actually subscribing since my friends can actually watch stuff with me and there’s no “household limits”.
My recurring bills, in the order of decreasing cost
- Taxes
- Rent
- Electricity
- Water
- Hetzner VPS
- Home internet
- Mobile
And I’m planning to cut out rent (will be replaced with property tax and maintenance tho) and the hetzner VPS within the next year, because it feels like too much already. I don’t know how people pay for like a dozen things every month.
My subscriptions:
-mobile phone paid monthly
-internet/isp
-vpn
that’s nice if you live with your mother and don’t have to pay for insurance, water, property tax, energy, gym/library, periodic maintenance, financial services, other taxes, …
You are well aware that the term is about tech/digital. ie: netflix, spotify etc
What kind of sh*thole country do you live in where you have to pay to use a library, and why “gym/library”?
I don’t because I just don’t subscribe to it all. Keeping track of all the services they talk about at work that I don’t pay for is bad enough.
I have no issues with subscriptions, but people need to remember YOU ARE IN CONTROL, ensure it provides you value.
I have Kagi, Ente, Proton. I consistently evaluate other options, comparing it against self hosting.
Apply this to netflix, if it doesn’t provide you value or they up the price, it’s okay - You can cancel and look elsewhere…
I bundled an Apple Music and tv with my cell phone and haven’t thought twice about it. I pirate everything else I want.
I had subscription fatigue back in the late 90s after playing both UO and EQ at the same time.
You can tell your bank and subscription provider to figure it out between themselves and leave you out of it.
Do you trust any bill-sender enough to do that? I don’t.
Just another reason to go to the dark side.
