Star Trek is the only reason I’m paying for Paramount+.
If Lower Decks and/or SNW go, I go.
Exactly! ✊
Maybe if they did not pull it from the service I am paying for in order to try and make me pay for yet another service this would not be a problem. But, no, corporate greed dictates that I must pay for 100 different streaming platforms to watch the one show on each one.
I am sick of this…
Same. I won’t watch the season until I complete my streaming service rotation…
I rotate them like quarterly.
With how many Lower Decks gifs I’ve been using, the show should never end
Cerritos strong!
Paramount couldn’t be dumb enough to cancel its best Star Trek series, could it?
(Remembers that someone at Paramount gave us six seasons of Two Broke Girls)
…probably.
Ouch
Get them to stop making their own damn streaming platforms, pick one or two and just live with those.
I want to see lower decks, but I’m not paying for yet another streaming platform to do so.
Lower Decks is amazing, and Strange New Worlds is also amazing. They did a crossover episode that was amazing.
I refuse to pay for Paramount on a consistent basis, and it’s frustrating canceling and resubscribing anytime a new show comes out.
This is the literal only reason I haven’t tuned in. I’m not signing up and keeping track of yet another streaming service, especially one that’s only has one thing I want to watch. This show is the only one I’m actually missing right now.
I will say, I’ve been getting a lot more useful things done once I started cancelling streaming services that I hadn’t watched anything on in months.
The seven seas welcome ye matey
They can have as many platforms as they like, we don’t want monopolies, duopolies or such, they just have to license out their works to others!
That’s a fair point. The issue is cost, then. If all of the services were 90% cheaper, I think we’d be okay with that.
I tend to agree here. But it has been interesting watching the proliferation of streaming services and trying to figure out what’s gonna happen next.
Like Netflix was a big first-mover, then everyone realized they could keep more money if they built their own streaming service, then everyone realized that building and running a streaming service is expensive and complicated, then everyone had to get onto the Original Content treadmill to try to keep folks subscribed which has led to somehow even more commodification of art, and now that running at a loss and pouring cash into original content to bump up numbers has gotten too expensive some services are pricing themselves out of the market.
I’m fascinated to see what the next big move is for these businesses. With more and more people starting to choose month to month which one or two services to subscribe to rather than keeping them all, I wonder if we’re gonna continue seeing the return of ad-supported plans or some services only offering yearly contracts or what the next move will be in pursuit of endless growth.
I’m fascinated to see what the next big move is for these businesses
They’re going to instill contracts just like cable companies did. Wanna watch XYZ show? Just sign this 2 year contract for noname streaming service!
People switching from service to service will not be tolerated for long. They must always extract more and more profit for their shareholders.
At my age you just get used to TV execs cancelling every good show way too early. Only shit is allowed to survive.
First off, I want very much for Lower Decks and Prodigy to continue.
That said, I would love to see Paramount+ crash and burn to the fucking ground, taking all the execs and bean counters down with it. Same with HBO Max, or Plus, or Minus, or whatever the fuck they rebranded to this week. Let them ALL fail and be sold for pennies on the dollar so that someone with half a brain can pick up the pieces.
If they get rid of lower decks and don’t give us legacy imma scream
To those complaining about streaming services, I’ve been using free alternative streaming websites for years and haven’t had an issue.
I love Star Trek Lower Decks but it’s really clear lately that the assholes at the top (of all profit oriented entertainment megacorps) don’t give a shit what the users want. Only a new user is important as that increases cash flow, the idiots who are already paying are at their whims.
This is one tangible draw back to being on the fediverse instead of mainstream social media - no one at companies are going to be watching or considering engagement here. So if it sort of locks us out of fan noise. I guess keep streaming it
How about they cancel Disco, Picard, and SNW and what ever weak shit they’ve put out the past few years and keep the only good Trek show they have?
Please keep in mind that not everyone on other Fediverse instances have access to the one you’re linking to. The same article can be accessed publically by any visitor at this URL:
I’m not linking to an instance, I’m linking to a Star Trek fan site. I’m not sure what I did wrong?
You did nothing wrong; I tried to visit the link you posted initially (the thread of which is located on the sopuli.xyz instance; I am on the meow.social instance) and was instructed that I needed to log in to that instance to access the thread wherein the article was hotlinked out of.
For whatever reason the second time I did so I was able to enter the thread you linked to and could visit the Trekmovie site it linked out to. I don’t believe there was remotely any malfeasance on your part, only that on my initial attempt to use the link I couldn’t access it.
Weird, I didn’t link to my instance or a thread on my instance at all. From what I can see I posted the exact same link that you did - direct to trekmovie.com. Not sure what is going on.
Anyone else having this issue?
@Klanky I believe you, and I think my initial and firmer tone was perhaps uncalled for; I apologize for that.
I should mention that you are also posting from the ‘sopuli.xyz’ instance; I am not familiar with the bulk of cross-instance posting mechanics but it may simply be an unusual, if unfortunate abstraction of behaviour in how posting works and links behave on the original post’s instance and Fediverse instances other than that.
No problem! I’m more curious what is going on. I did create the post while viewing the Star Trek instance from my sopuli.xyz instance. Like you said, it might be a quirk of the Fediverse.
Every time I think i finally understand the fediverse, i encounter a thread like this and realize i don’t know shit lol
They linked directly to the post on the Lemmy side, so I’m guessing it’s an issue with how Mastodon handles Lemmy posts. I’m on a different Lemmy instance and I can see the direct link just fine.
