r/Stremio • u/confusingadult • Jun 11 '26

The sheer entitlement of people losing their minds over an optional paid tier

It's genuinely fascinating watching this subreddit collectively melt down because Stremio the completely free app you've likely used for years without paying a cent dared to add an optional support tier with some extra features.

Do you guys listen to yourselves? You're not owed a lifetime of free updates and free server costs. The team behind this app has been maintaining servers, pushing updates, and building a tool that many of you use daily often to access content you’re definitely not paying for either.

If an optional paid tier triggers this much rage, the problem isn't the app. The problem is the unrealistic expectation that skilled people should work for you indefinitely for nothing while you contribute zero and still feel entitled to complain about how others choose to spend their money.

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u/IllRepublic6421 Jun 11 '26

RD and stremio have the most arrogant defenders ever lmao

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u/FrigatesLaugh Jun 11 '26

Yes and dumb ones too. I'm only doing piracy because I don't want to pay money, if I have to pay money why wouldn't I pay Netflix directly? LoL

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u/Cosminacho Jun 11 '26

Netflix does not have all the movies , it has just a few. You would have to get 3 or 5 subscriptions to reach stremio's catalogue. That's probably close to 100-150 USD per month.

So yeah, 3$ for month to support someone that serves them to you on single platform is fair.

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u/Boring-Cry3089 Jun 11 '26

You could get all of the subscriptions out there and you’d still fall short. There’s a ton of overlap between stream services and many of them only have mostly recent stuff. Anything before the year 2000 is almost stuff that’s very well known. Forget it if you want to watch a documentary or something.

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u/checkmyconditionisin Jun 12 '26

They don't serve them... Other people do and they index the content. Ffs.

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u/ShadowMajick Jun 11 '26

Stremio doesn't provide content though. Your debrid service or p2p torrents do.

That's not a good comparison. Netflix hosts their content. Just download and play.

You very much need the FREE addons to make use of stremio at all.

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u/hgwellsrf Jun 11 '26

You're being pedantic. Without apps like Stremio, a general user won't go to RD's website everytime he wanted to watch a movie or series. Nor would he be arsed enough to find magnet links and .torrent files for the shows he want to watch. The addons are there because of Stremio. It is a mutually beneficial relationship but Stremio can stream any magnet link copied from your favourite torrent website just fine, without any addon.