I don’t know why you’d equate might-enshittify to already-enshittifying. Especially when Jellyfin isn’t VC-funded, the leading indicator for enshittification.
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks agoThis mindset is bizarre.
“Everyone should get out now because at some stage in the future Plex might get greedy and ruin it all and charge us through the nose. Move to Jellyfin! They’ll definitely never ever do anything like Plex.”
I think you know where this is heading…
jonathan@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Precisely, the worst thing that happens is jellyfin pulls open source or stops getting updates, At which point someone forks it and the next generation picks up the ball and we keep going.
If it’s open source, and it’s interesting and useful it will be maintained.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I also want to emphasize that relicensing from the GPLv2 to something proprietary is damn-near impossible for a project this large with a team who are so ideologically motivated to make FOSS. If I today submit a PR to the Jellyfin codebase, they can’t legally relicense to a proprietary license without 1) getting my consent to give me ownership of their work (I’m not likely to be paid off or convinced it’s a good thing that work I submitted for free is being enshittified), or 2) removing my work from the project if they can’t get in touch with me or if I say no. To emphasize: this process is affirmative.
Thus, the process is to survey who’s contributed to the project, reach out to anyone whose work is still in the project (preferably in writing in a permanent, court-admissable format like email), ask them to transfer ownership of their copyright to you, keep track of who’s said no, said yes, or not answered, fulfill conditions for anyone who wants something in return, and meticulously rip out all of the code from people who say “no” or don’t answer. One of the project’s major contributors died 10 years ago? Legally, too fucking bad: they didn’t relinquish shit to you. Rip out that legacy code and start over.
Just like for instance if you want to take a Wikipedia article and own it for yourself, you can’t just go ask the Wikimedia Foundation nicely. You have to contact every single contributor whose work is extant in that article, and rip out work that isn’t explicitly given to you by its owner.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
Jellyfin isn’t yet. It will if they ever want to actually compete and make a living from it.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 5 weeks ago
They are not a company. Why would they want to “make a living” from it?
jonathan@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Jellyfin has a BDFL and is an organisation with assets, so it’s not impossible. However, considering it was forked from Emby by GPL nerds in response to licensing issues, I think it’s very unlikely.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
They are not a company.
They definitely are.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
If they ever want to we fork it and make a new thing. It’s the great thing about open source it’s ours.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
Nothing changes for anyone that isn’t HOSTING a plex server, and most of those people would already have a Plex Pass due to the benefits it gives.
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Everyone should get out now because Plex has started to ruin things and you should seek alternatives now, while you have time, and not wait until they finish shitting the bed.
And no, jellyfin won’t do anything like this because they don’t have control over how you use it and don’t force their cloud on you.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
Literally nothing changes for me, the plex server host, or any of the people streaming from my server though. Nothing at all. Nothing is ruined, nothing has started to be ruined. I don’t have to pay any more money, none of my friends and family have to pay any money.
And no, jellyfin won’t do anything like this because they don’t have control over how you use it and don’t force their cloud on you.
Until Jellyfin no longer maintain it and change to a closed source product that they want to make money from.
Plex’s own “cloud” that they “force” on you is part of what makes Plex the success that it is, and it costs them money to maintain.
tabular@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Plex is in control of their user’s computing in a way Jellyfin isn’t. You can remove anti-features from Jellyfin software and even redistribute it. So it’s much less likely they would do something like Plex and it even doesn’t matter if they did as you can find others to work on it in a way you want. Plex is proprietary software, Jellyfin is software freedom.