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This feels weirdly dystopian and just gives me an "empty" feeling. Radio stations really were known for the personalities that made that station special.

It's a cool experiment, but I can't see the value here.


I heard some very generic broadcasters the other day that really reminded me of Gemini podcasts, maybe it's already happening

Love RSS feeds. I feel there could always be a niche and use for this technology.

Yep! Feels like a hard truth about the product life-cycle. It may be time to find an alternative to what was a great alternative.

A great idea of a product is some sort of unified system for companies to correctly manage subscriptions. There needs to be standards for what makes a user flow acceptable or not when it comes to cancellations.


To add to this, Apple has the subscriptions panel on iOS in the settings app showing you everything on your account including third party apps as long as you subscribed through apps instead of websites.

Why would a company participate in this? Most don't seem interested in making cancellation easier.

Because they like money and having different choices for consumers to give them money wins out.

But they make way more money implementing the dark pattern playbook. It's hardly an accident when subscriptions are hard to cancel it's a deliberate optimization.

You have to participate in order to get access to most iPhone users.

I use privacy.com virtual cards. I make a card for each vendor, and define a limit for it. I can kill the cards anytime.

Just because you revoke payment doesn’t mean you cancelled (at least in Europe). If you just stop paying, they will sue you to get the money.

Yep, in the US you can have the debt sent to collections.

My spouse got fucked by Shutterstock and we have to have a calendar reminder to cancel this when the year is up, since cancelation prior will result in us still paying out the year, but not getting the remainder of the service.

They're extremely scummy. I could certainly block the charges, but they'd just come after us and cause a headache.


Same. Apparently their privacy policy is sketchy as hell but the product has been consistent for over 12 years of using it

I love the idea, reminds me a lot of gardening and growing fruits in special containers.

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