‘cause they’ve enshittified.

We went from cable cutting to piracy to streaming services that were relatively inexpensive and ad-free back to services that emulated cable - expensive and full of ads, so guess what’s next?

why bother when you cancel every show after the second season?

Fuck Netflix. Capitalist hell machine.

We could have free streaming via public library systems, or something else that's not a profit driven malice, but this is the bad place.

Because they randomly cancel shows for no reason

Hard to get invested when they're all 6 episode seasons, 2+ year breaks, and canceled after 2 or 3 seasons.

Maybe if they make Three Body Problem S2, 4 episodes, instead of 8, it will solve it. Or they could cancel Kaos again, or try running a washed up comedian, Im sure that will increase engagement. Actually, I think I want an Ad for my paid service, every 15 seconds. yeah. do that.

why bother when most series get cancelled only after 1-3 season anyway, and its only 8episodes plus extremely long hiatus times between seasons.

Because every time you open it, it's an assault on the senses. There's no sense of discovery.

Fuck Netflix and its practice of cancelling shows at their second season. May it crash and burn when the AI market turns.

Well yeah. You open the app and they just try get you to watch whatever they want you to watch. I want to watch what I want me to watch.

I finally canceled my Netflix in favor of going full Plex. They upped their subscription price for the last time and I was sick of it.

We've cancelled our Netflix subscription almost a year aggo and back then it was already getting faaaaar too boring.

Good shows that only get one or two seasons: Oh great, thanks a lot assholes. Now I'm invested in these characters without any closure. <= it was like that all the time. Fuck that, I'm not paying for demos. Or big corpos that suck up to fascism.

Netflix and D+ inspired me to finally get my arr stack going and now for less than the cost of 1 Netflix subscription I am able to stream anything I want from my remote box. So thanks for that, I wouldn't be here flying my 🏴‍☠️ without their service getting so shitty and expensive that I went well out of my way to set this up and now I love it.

But are users who are doing this unsubscribing? Because if they don't, maybe that's what Netflix is aiming for. I don't pretend to understand the way of con artists executives.

It's not hard to get people to watch. Produce good shows with actual seasons (minimum 13 episodes, preferably somewhere around 20 for certain types of shows). Then let those shows run for multiple seasons to continue to build up a fan base, so you can start to make money on merchandising. Make sure to always film a proper ending and avoid cliff hangers for the series finale to increase rewatchability. In fifteen years, you can have multiple shows that have at least 5+ seasons/100+ episodes, greatly increasing variety and rewatchability.

I haven't used Netflix in ages, but their UI was horrible. Considering trends for the past twenty years, I can't imagine it got better. I'll never forgive them for deleting the reviews. Often, the Netflix reviews were the best reviews (that was not universally true).

But inevitably, they will increase prices, add more ads, then start spamming those 5+ seasons/100+ episodes shows made fully from AI slop.

Yes, because i am using open source platforms now

Choppy seas ahead........

Its just a question of time and economics that streaming will become just as awful and enshitified as cable once was.

By definition and stock valuation, this has to happen for the money invested in these companies to make sense.