It’s super frustrating to talk about because the word “liberal” without any qualifiers can mean so many different things depending on the context.

It’s kind of like a time vs money trade-off than anything else. At the end of the day I just want to turn on Netflix, Spotify, or Steam and not have to worry about anything else.

Anytime someone says liberal on Lemmy it will mostly likely refer to modern liberalism in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States

I don’t really see how I’m better off doing this. It’s a lot of extra time I have to invest for each game, music track, and video I watch.

My head-cannon of the differences

US Socialist (social democrat) - Busses should be free for everyone.

US Liberal - Free bus passes only for poor people

US Right-wing - Let the free-market decide and somehow only allow US citizens to ride busses.

Honestly, if it’s something that I enjoy, it doesn’t matter much to me if it’s considered creative or not.

Oh for sure, I don’t have the data personally to prove or disprove enshitification of video media consumption. So I’m going on personal experiences and opinion, here. As a personal anecdote, attempts to enshitify video streaming was just met with me leaving the platform. So I’m admittedly projecting my own view onto other people, here. Unlike social media where there is a network effect that keeps people there, video media doesn’t have that effect. If a provider makes video streaming worse, consumers will just leave and they can do one any another million of things there is to do on a tablet.

That’s why I’m not really concerned with the Netflix buyout of WB discovery. It will likely make more content available on more services.

I mean maybe like a year ago, for a short time, Amazon suddenly had multiple 4 minute ads in a video. It was unwatchable so I just dropped the platform entirely. I was in the middle of watching Vox Machina. When I came back a few months later, even though the ads were gone, the damage was already done. I forgot what was going on and lost interest in the show.

I’ll respectfully pass, I honestly have no issue financially supporting content that I enjoy.

For enshitification, I mean that it’s the same thing but it got worse. Like how Reddit used to have an open API. And how X was balanced in the past didn’t promote certain viewpoints. It’s the same product as before that just got worse. It’s something that happens a lot with social media.

Releasing new content with ads, DLC, or gambling isn’t enshitifying something. It’s releasing something new which is shitty. It’s new content which is in addition to the previously released content. Those older games, podcasts, videos, music, and apps are still available. And they are likely cheaper, have less ads, and are easier to access than before.

I guess I personally don’t really see enshitification happening to things with a producer-distribution model. Besides music, there are podcasts, app/play store, and video games which never really went through enshitification where I’m like forced to watch more ads, so it isn’t likely video will either, at least in my opinion.

Amazon prime tried it with adding a lot of ads and people just stopped watching Amazon shows, entirely. Like music, there’s just too much content to watch out there.

It feels like video streaming going the way of audio streaming with more content for the price. Just this merge would greatly increase Netflix’s catalog size. I’m okay with it, personally.

It’s kind of nice for us normies, to be fair.

It doesn’t actually exist in real life. It’s AI.

I got a temp ban from reddit. Not cool enough, apparently.