A large group of people got pissed off at all the enshitification of Plex. It isn’t a personal attack and you are welcome to keep using Plex. However, it is evident that many are looking towards Jellyfin as a better alternative.
Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day agoit’s almost as if a small group of people are desperately trying to make people to change to jellyfin.
6 months ago I was seriously looking at jellyfin as a Plex alternative. Now? nah, I’m good.
I’ll take a corporate shitheel company over a roach infested toxic community any day.
the more they push the less I want anything to do with jellyfin, and the leaders at jellyfin should be made aware of what their community members are doing.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 day ago
You clearly have not been in a lot of Plex/Jellyfin threads. Using Plex is often portrayed as some kind of capital sin by hardcore Jellyfin fans.
I’m also in the boat of letting people use what they want, but the discussion is usually not made in good faith
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
but the discussion is usually not made in good faith
“Everybody who disagrees with me is a troll or a shill.”
Sure, buddy, because Free Software projects run by volunteers famously have huge guerilla marketing budgets. Won’t somebody think of the poor for-profit companies who first got their leg up by taking Free Software code they didn’t write and then subsequently gradually closed and enshittified it? They’re the real victims here.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Nobody said anything like that. I’m just saying that Jellyfin fans tend to get pretty emotional when the topic comes up, as you just proofed fabulously
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
What an asinine fucking take. Even if Plex were better than Jellyfin in every single way (it isn’t), this take would still be asinine. I mean, wtf dude.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Meh, seems like a sensible take. Certainly better for your mental health.
Communities matter. There’s a reason I’m not on X, there’s a reason I don’t play pubg or overwatch, toxic communities can seriously make any experience suck.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And a toxic shitheel community won’t do that?
it’s comments like yours that makes me feel vindicated in choosing corporate over FOSS, and I know I’m not the only one.
Thanks for doing your part in proving my point.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
No. You know you don’t need to join a community for using something, right? I didn’t join a community for my dishwasher. Not even for most of my apps, actually. It’s very easy. When you choose corporate, you’re giving money for shit service. There’s literally no way for dissociate from that. On the other hand, you can simply not participate in a community, no one’s forcing you. It’s just weird that you still prefer the corporate way.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yes please explain to me what I have to do.
that’s not toxic behavior at all! /s
I’m not a member of the Plex community, never have been. I expect the service to be tailored to make the company a profit. That’s literally all I can trust them to do.
so what can I trust the jellyfin community to do? right now they’re toxic as fuck towards me because I’m telling them they’re being toxic as fuck. the software they built could be the most beautiful and elegant solution in the whole world. but…I’ll never know that because I can’t get past being vilified for calling an apple an apple.
Jellyfin, get your shit together or you will never get past the whole “Plex is shitty” phase.
winners don’t care about winning, they only care about being the best they can be. maybe focus on more of that and less shitting on Plex for doing whatever they’re doing.