Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I understand charging for the software but a subscription service for a self hosted program is fucking wild.

  Why does everything has to be a subscription these days?

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can just buy a lifetime Plex pass. Its a one off payment

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can also choose a one time fee with plex

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  • aim_at_me@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not really. Unless you can only expect to pay once for software and never expect any updates. Software development is expensive. And even self hosted stuff requires constant attention.

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unless you can only expect to pay once for software and never expect any updates.

      Back in the day that would be called a ‘new version’ and I could buy it or not depending if the new features are worth it to me or not

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      • aim_at_me@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I’m not so young. Like, I agree with you on one level,.it gives the company less control to rug pull on you and slide in a whole heap of enshittification. It’s the shitty behaviour of some companies that makes subscriptions painful.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because money

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• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they can’t do anything better than jellyfin which is fully free open source I don’t see why they should expect money. If Photoshop were paid for gimp they certainly wouldn’t deserve anything.

  I think the bad feelings are by virtue of taking away something that WAS free. This is just basic human psych people are loss averse.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they can’t do anything better than jellyfin which is fully free open source I don’t see why they should expect money.

    Plex is much better than jellyfin, especially for the exact thing this whole outrage is about - remote streaming.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I tried jellyfin and thought Plex was better in all aspects personally. Yeah, it sucks to lose free features, then again no one is owed fully free software from a commercial company

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    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Likewise nobody is owed good feelings by users

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