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What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 days ago by pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This seems like a ridiculously loose use of the word subscription.

Would you say you subscribe to 700km worth of fuel in your car, subscribe to light bulbs in your house, subscribe to your pencil that is getting slowly worn down with each use?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why not?

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

Because it's frankly a somewhat ridiculous stretch of the word. That way, anything you purchase more than once in your life would be a subscription (toilet paper, bathroom repairs, even food and water). If anything, it gives more power to toxic subscription services (like how BMW gatekeeps seat heating iirc) by muddying the waters and making their subscriptions seem less outrageous than it is.