Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users

Kirk@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The pricing model hasn’t changed.

  Doesn’t enshittification also entail the removal/reduction of previously-existing features/functionality?

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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Enshitification is the specific process of capturing a supplier/consumer market through short term subsidies, squeezing out the competition, and then squeezing the suppliers and consumers directly.

    Increasing prices alone isn’t enshitification. But increasing prices after sustaining artificially low prices for the purpose of creating a monopoly or quasi monopoly is enshitification.

    Plex most definitely was providing a good quality product but was not generating revenue, and has little to no competition (Jellyfin is a bit debatable) as a result. Was it intentional or just incompetence? Hard to prove either way. I’d say the biggest argument against enshitification is that Plex is mostly a product instead of market space hosting suppliers and consumers, like Google, YouTube, AirBNB, Uber, etc.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They could have made it peer to peer somehow but are charging just for being a middle man, which is kind of the definition of enshittification

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is paid productivity software. Use Jelyfin if you want a free OSS media server.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nothing I said indicated I use it. I was correcting OP for saying this isn’t enshittification.

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