Comment on Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company

• thantik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With Plex adding “Live TV” and all the other shit for the past 6 years, their enshittification isn’t new. Most people I know still on Plex are only doing so because they paid for a lifetime pass. They’re full on sunk-cost-fallacy.

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  • Z4rK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still not worth, I have a lifetime plex pass but have switched 100% to Jellyfin now. Enshittification was part of it, but their response to the privacy hack was the last straw.

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  • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m still on Plex because the app experience just isn’t there on Jellyfin yet. It’s close, but switching audio/subtitle tracks is not as intuitive or straightforward as I want yet. I’m thinking it will probably be ready for my server in a year or two.

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    • Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Emby FTW! I left plex a couple of years ago, and Emby has been great.

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      • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I feel like Emby, as a for-profit company will eventually go down the same path as Plex.

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    • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Really? I hit the subtitle track button on my remote and select english, and that’s only for not-automatically chosen files whenever that happens. I watch a fuckton of Animes and 95% of the time it’s automatically chosen. I’m using an Android TV client though.

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      • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Might be that the Roku app is/wasn’t quite up to the same standard as the Android TV one. I also remember not liking how they handled something in their official Android app, but it’s been six months. I honestly don’t remember. I just have a reminder to check it out again next summer.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This, I paid their lifetime Plex pass at a huge discount and bailed on it when they started adding shit and ruining it. Jellyfin since then.

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• Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember how everyone lost their mind over Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year?

  That was largely symptomatic of venture capital increasingly pulling out of tech. Partially because of the ongoing “are we in a recession or are we just acting like it?” mess. Partially because signs are good that we are going to have another Pandemic and are likely to handle it even more poorly. And partially because it has increasingly been clear that one company trying to pivot to become profitable means another startup takes their place.

  And that means that a lot of the tech companies that have been operating at a loss for years/decades need to get their shit together.

  Some of it is just frantic attempts to stem the bleeding resulting in bad will that will likely blow over (Reddit a few months ago… and twitter every week at this point). Some of it is a focused effort to start horrible so that the “compromise” is still favorable (MAYBE Unity?).

  But expect more of this. Because it is largely the difference between existing and going bankrupt within the next year or two.

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  • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Signs we are going to have another pandemic? Is this like a general “we know we aren’t prepared” or like “there is a virus outbreak that hasn’t hit the media yet”?

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tech has always been geared towards losing money to provide a valuable service but the understanding from investors who don’t loan for free is that at some point you turn on the profit engine. Some tech companies are able to generate revenue without necessarily making their product awful for users, but the more pull and pressure investors have, and the more driven by impatience, the emshittifier things become. The Fed turning off the free money tap last year by starting to raise interest rates was an inevitable wake up call for investors that they needed to change their model to start profiting or at least lose less. Many, many companies, users and products are experiencing US’s investors-first-and-only capitalism’s inevitable end; it destroys the good it created. Companies either enshittify, or if they don’t have a way to enshittify, go under.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Interest rates. No free money.

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• sirboozebum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Interest rates went up and the flood of money from investors went down.

  Investors are probably demanding a return on their massive amounts of speculative investing in the tech industry.

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There seems to be a pattern in services like this where they launch as a good idea that’s under priced and take off like a rocket, then growth levels off as everyone is either already using the service or never will regardless of what they do. Once you reach that point, however, you still need to show revenue growth because capitalism, so if you can’t get more users you either have to make the service more expensive for the users you have, or cheaper to run. The former we see happening all over the place, and the latter is actually a good thing in limited amounts as unnecessary parts are trimmed off, but will almost always also result in useful features being axed. Hence why everything seems to be getting more expensive and worse.

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