They are not only “unnecessary”, but counterproductive…

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to the purpose of corporations making short term profits. “Workers” can be replaced, but won’t someone please think of the impact that telling people to stop paying for flights and food and such will have on ThE eCoNoMy!?!?

Yeah but… that’s somebody else’s problem (other than those who profit by the selling).

- them, who cares nothing about any of the rest of us

Is more really about to be “burned” though? That’s the rhetoric, but I would guess rather that the excess would be sold, thus depressing prices across the globe.

Yes and I spoke directly to that:

red was too until 2025. But iirc there are “details” there like that… complicates interpretation of just these raw numbers.

Tbh I don’t understand the recent blip in the red, but indeed that alone would justify me leaving Netflix, if it happened to me - and I suppose I will face that fact soon, so I should begin to brush up on my sailing skills, which I have mostly neglected bc the 123s are so great and low-effort, when they work, but they often do not.

This worries me greatly, and I apologize if I sounded insensitive that it’s already happening to others as well. I wanted clarification as to what these numbers MEAN, but I should search and read rather than speak that out I guess.

That’s on me, I explained myself horribly there.:-D

Also I was speaking to my ignorance, and that never comes across well - like I was saying that I don’t know what other features the Premium plan even offers, above the others. Hypothetically, if more were offered, then the price increase might make more sense?

I’ve never had nor will ever have the Premium plan though, so in the end I don’t really care what its price is, except that if it keeps the company fed and allows the lower plans to stay cheaper then good for it?

I care WAY more about that tiny little blip, just one year’s spike in the standard plan over the last year, then everything else that increased. And the blue did not increase, much.

So if the rich have to pay more now, boo hoo? While the blue remains the same = good? And, prior to 2025, which I don’t really understand, the red / Standard likewise?

But your title focuses entirely on the increase in the Premium plan. Which, if that’s what you want to do is your call, and yet I felt like there was a lack of explanation as to why (not that you have to go do it, just saying that would be the next step, in order to interpret these raw numbers), and a whole story about the blue and red lines that runs counter to the story for the (particularly yellow) Premium plan(s).

I said: eat the rich

Your response: money shouldn’t exist

Okay… maybe, but this is what we have now.

This is the way that it should be IMHO - the rich pay more, and get more in return. Like, hasn’t the feature set of Premium increased? 4k, multiple household multiple screen whatever whatever. Anyway if they can afford it and want to, then that helps everyone out for them to support the entire platform.

More troubling to me (than whatever is going on with Premium that is way above most of our heads) is the recent uptick for Standard. Like the blue line is remarkably flat, and red was too until 2025. But iirc there are “details” there like that is only for people outside the USA, not that that one fact alone isn’t high relevant, but that it’s one example of a detail (and there may be several others along with it) that complicates interpretation of just these raw numbers. Like at that point I’d want to know the reason why the price went up only outside but not inside the USA - pure corporate greed? (Certainly that’s one of the factors:-P, but is it the only one?) Laws passed in the other countries affected that makes it more expensive to operate there? A bit of both?

I like paying for Netflix, bc it’s a superb player that handles network congestion and such very well and it signals content creators which content I want to see more of. I don’t restrict myself to “only” what I can pay for, but if a show is on Netflix then I enjoy the convenience that it offers. The situation is nothing like what it used to be let’s say 5 years ago, and I worry about how that will continue to evolve in a year or two, but for now it halfway works - and I’m not signing up for Disney or Paramount or Hulu or whatever so Netflix it is then. As long as I can afford it.

(This makes a ton more sense if you’ve seen the show:-)

But at least, on the bright side…

Hrm, hold on a moment…

I can’t seem to find one of those.:-(

Please don’t get yourself fired!? Facts themselves are political these days:-(.

Until I want to type Sick Dick Go. I went ahead and allowed autocorrect it’s (sic) way there. Google works perfectly though, on my Android phone.

Edit: to be clear I was talking about DuckDuckGo.

Yup. Fortunately most of what I’ve said is already in PieFed. Notably, PieFed is lacking in some of the foundationals - like when a post is deleted the notification for it remains, and these kinds of things can be quite frustrating, plus the search feature is not good. However, while I would not recommend it to a brand new member of the Fediverse, I am using it as a daily driver myself, who knows how to fall back to Lemmy to compensate for its shortcomings. So there is hope for the Threadiverse, regardless of Lemmy on its own.:-)

There isn’t a system built into Lemmy where qualified users can demote moderators.

As much as I agree that there is a very large degree of similarity between Lemmy and Reddit, there is though: community members can appeal to an admin, and there is also the “owner” level even above that, if not the same. You really wouldn’t even want to go above that, bc if someone pays for a machine then to some degree it really truly is “theirs”, unless you go down a few levels and do what the 196 members did: just flat walk out and go elsewhere:-).

Also, PieFed has some really interesting ideas for democratization of moderation where instead of the purely binary “remove” vs. “allow”, power is placed into the hands of individual community members to tweak the settings to get the kind of experience that they want. e.g. posts below a voting threshold can be automatically collapsed, or even hidden altogether, thus allowing the entirety of a community to make that decision for someone, if they want, or the user can not use that feature and preserve the ability to read the content - again, unlike a mod decision that must either preserve the content in its entirety or else remove it altogether, without capability to provide such nuances. Additionally, there are other factors such as labels that can be placed onto user accounts (“new user <2 weeks old”, “has >10x more downvotes than upvotes”, “posts but never comments or votes so looks like an unregistered bot account”, etc.), plus you can define your own emoji labels to help remind you not to engage or something.

I don’t know if or when we’ll ever see such on Lemmy, which was written by authoritarians for their own purposes, and we are merely allowed to use their software. If we want differently though, we’ll need to create it. As K/Mbin, PieFed, and Sublinks are doing!:-)

Here I made this just for you:-)

More seriously, that’s somewhat the purpose of this community though? There are tons of other communities featuring more (if not quite exclusively) OC, like !tenforward@lemmy.world and !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world, and that’s just picking on memes.

PieFed.social isn’t ready for mainstream, but even without an account you can use its Categories of Communities feature to discover new ones that you want to subscribe to.

Reminds me of this one:

- source