Is the onus on the consumer? As much as I hate to say it I am pretty judgemental when it comes to people paying for subscriptions.
While its wholly negative to have this mind set in the modern world is it such a bad thing.
Like if we were all in a Lemmy community swimming pool and 80% of lemmys where pissing in that pool would I be unjust to be mad, my thought pattern here is by people supporting the subscription model will impacts everyone and it goes further than just more subscription only content, it impacts hardware where a lot of iot device and gaming device are less about serving the enjoyable media/useful features and more offering a portal to subscription services which impacts usabilities like rooting, custom ROMs, emulation, general tinkering, now every modern console, shady iot device has some kind of encrypted lock or circumventing that lock will also attract negative attention from corpos. At what point will consumer PCs start running locked down software with a locked bootloader.
Should we as consumers stop buying game pass, Disney plus, vibrating massarg rings, mill kits, cable TV. As to not incentives corporations.
I hope I’m not doom saying just general frustration and concern for what the future will hold. And I’d like to see what the general concus is on the subject
OP forgot a question mark at the end of their post
“Should we blame the consumer?”
Was actually wanting a discussion on the surge of subscription services and its effects on hardware, cultural and who’s to blame, a lot of people gave great long form answers already and is far from a binary discussion but even so even short yes no answers are insightful to the mood my post has caused