Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 days agoI get all of that. I really do feel ya. However, I find it quite difficult to raise my ire over a free product (Tailscale) that I use in conjunction with my hobby, changing up their game and going IPO. I guess I do not take my network as seriously as others here do.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Not so much ire than awareness and planning so we don’t get caught pants down. I’ve been using them for 5 years, paid for it and have a pretty elaborate setup which supports services for family and friends. I’ve been happy so far, but will be decoupling from their infrastructure. No ire for them, just for the system. The system makes people and firms do what they do. 😄
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ok I can understand awareness. This whole time I’ve been thinking, Plex started in 2008 and ‘Plex Hate’ followed about two years into it’s existence and has perpetuated itself for these 15 +/- years now. So I’m wondering, if during this time, anyone’s personal narrator went off in their head with something like:
Perhaps I misread the tone of the article.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
What you want to look at is the size of the hate and the material reasons for it. And that’s fairly difficult to measure if you’re not paying close attention. Plex hate has been growing dramatically over the last few years because they materially changed their service. They began collecting data some time ago and now they are selling it unless you go and opt out. So the hate is much larger and louder for that reason. For me those last changes were the straw that made it clear we’re just one small push for profit away from my sailing habits getting sold to the American copyright lobby. So I’m currently trialling Jellyfin.
In addition as some have highlighted Jellyfin is markedly different from Plex or Emby in that it’s open source and if something happens to it, forking is the way out, which already happened since Jellyfin is a fork of Emby. Migrating from one open source project to its fork is usually trivial compared to migrating from a proprietary service to another one. And there’s no reasonable chance of my data ending up in the RIAA/MPAA’s hands. So the Plex -> Jellyfin switch everyone is doing is not merely switching to another horse. It’s more like switching to completely different vehicle that you can maintain indefinitely.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well, I have had dealings with the RIAA back in the pre-Napster era when audio on the internet had not really come into it’s own and most people associated audio on the internet with GeoCities midis…pretty crappy stuff. I ran a fairly successful, fully liscensed, internet radio station with a company called the IM Radio Networks. They along with Phillips created one of the world’s first bookshelf stereos that could ‘tune in’ internet radio as well as AM/FM. Even went to Washington with others to plead our case before a hearing that included Senator Leahy. Yeah, the RIAA are a bunch of reactive assholes and have never been proactive since AM radio first crackled into people’s homes.
I’ve always figured that if it was offered for free on the internet, there were always going to be strings and at some point I’d have to do something different to achieve the same results I was looking for.