Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week agoI really don’t give a shit if a corporation needs more revenue to satisfy their infinite growthTM.
Oh so they don’t deserve to be paid for their work, the only reason they’d be after money is for “infinite growthTM”?
What’s not fine is taking something away people used to get for free
I agree that’s never good, but what’s the alternative? Go out of business? Insert ads into your streaming of local content?
I mention JellyFin because at some stage it will become a business and they’ll start charging too, or it will get left behind because it’s free. People can fork all they want, but businesses that provide services can’t do so for free for eternity.
Is there even anyone that runs a plex server who doesn’t have a lifetime plex pass these days?
Why are you skipping over the alternative venues of revenue I suggested that wouldn’t be as problematic? Because without you couldn’t paint me as irrational, asking the poor corpo to not make more money than last quarter at their customers expense 😔
They can pay their employees just fine. They do this because the investors want their returns.
Adding extra tiers that only the people who already bought a Plex pass would buy? If you run a Plex server and haven’t got a Plex pass by now, you were never going to unless they did what they’re doing now, as it’s basically feature complete.
You don’t really seem to understand that businesses need revenue and profit to survive, publicly traded or private. You’d rather see Plex die than have their most hardcore users have to pay a tiny fee?
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Opinion of 1 Jellyfin programmer
Citation needed.
What do you mean left behind? By who? Anyway, what’s wrong with being left behind?
We’re not beholden to anyone. We’re not in competition with anyone. We’re not in a race, so I don’t understand how we could get left behind.
We’ll keep doing what we do with the amazing team of people who volunteer their time, and other solutions can do whatever they want to do, I don’t care because, again, it’s not a competition!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
No citation needed. They’ll either do it one day or the software will languish behind in obscurity.
Nothing I guess, other than the competition getting further and further ahead and your users leaving for them.
You definitely are. JellyFin doesn’t exist in a vaccuum. You might not feel like its competition, but the jellyfin software competes with all the other media streaming software out there.
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
😆 Ok buddy.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
I just saw you guys did your first iOS app update in 3 years, and first Xbox app update in 5 years, congrats!
Now what was that I was saying about being left behind again?