Submitted 2 hours ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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In todays episode of “Plex enshittifies” Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: forums.plex.tv/t/…/917736
I don’t count this as fake. He must certainly uses the software and the features he described are actually features under plex pass. And I no doubt believe he enjoys it. No lies here.
Yeah fair enough, and I do agree. I only reused the title of the forum post where this was originally posted. Have changed the title up now.
“Reviews” but there’s only one.
This is probably some employee who genuinely likes the U.I.
An actual company-sponsored campaign would NOT use names from actual employees.
Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.
“Plex respects their employees autonomy” wow really??
Mobile app reviews are worthless anyway.
Is it fake or just a review by an employee that uses plex?
Yeah, I`m all for roasting Plex but nothing about that review is inappropriate or prima facie untruthful.
The desperate becomes even more desperate.
I ditched Plex for Jellyfin a while ago and am not a fan of Plex, but this is the silliest thing to complain about. First of all, just because they work for Plex doesn’t automatically make it a fake review. Certainly wouldn’t call it an unbiased one, but that doesn’t mean the review is fake.
Never thought I’d see the hate for plex on here get to this level.
it’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.
Sharing this post form r/selfhosted which also describes the recent plex situation lately, worth a read. Image
What do ya know, yet another day of being happy I never invested in Plex
Yet again Plex is an amazing example of how people become more angry because they give things away for free.
If everything required a Plex pass less people would be angry.
Just use want you want.
I’m not a fan of Plex and switched to Jellyfin very early on, but I’m a bit confused by the outrage here. He used his real name to report on a UX he built. I see FOSS developers do this all the time, and it seems pretty innocuous.
I can imagine if he generated thousands of anonymous accounts and did the same it’d be very bad, but an author commenting on his own work using his full real name doesn’t seem like a conspiracy plot
Is the user from Playstore the real Rui Lebre? I mean, I can create on any platform users with real people names, but how can people know that it is the real person that is creating the comment, not just an imposter?
Don’t know for sure ofc, but the co-founder has commented in the thread without addressing the issue. They’ve also closed the thread without addressing all together which also seems weird. Surely if it wasn’t him they would have said so?
it’s a single review, who cares?
Counterpoint: when I worked at Panda Express, I used to leave fake reviews on our store about how helpful and professional pp_boy_ was because I wanted a raise. Never did it on any accounts attached to my name though.
do you know for a fact that is him and not just someone using his name? either way this is fairly harmless
This was a nice reminder to leave some bad reviews on the App Store
Today i finalized my switch over to Jellyfin. I was a lifetime member but i’m tired of letting them scrape my data.
Never underestimate the sycophantic idiocy of individual tech workers. One developer does not make a corporate policy.
Jellyfin works fine. No point paying for Plex.
I have been really happy with hosting my stuff via Emby even with my friend’s library on Plex. I have found the media recognition and identification system in Emby to be much better/easier to use.
While the music player in Emby is nowhere near as good as plexamp. I mostly store a local copy of my music on my phone anyways so it is not really an issue. I am going to start playing with navidrome when I get time but a one directional sync with syncthing fromy server to my phone would also work for my needs.
The Emby app on android tv is decent but not flashy and does not have streaming content by default, it is fully functional as a media player for library files.
Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Leaving this completely unrelated link to a better alternative here: jellyfin.org
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 minutes ago
“Better”
Maybe if they’d fix their glaring security issues
ccunning@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Am I correct that there is no first party Jellyfin app for AppleTV?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
There is not, but Infuse is what the Jellyfin project offically recommends.
stephaaaaan@feddit.org 2 hours ago
There is Jellyfin, Swiftfin, and Infuse - the latter being 3rd party, but its my favourite so far in terms of stability :)
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 hour ago
If you use plex and jellyfin anyway, i suggest checking raspberry pi and kodi (libre elec) as an alternative. The pi4 is fine for hd at least, some use it for 4k but i have no exp with that. It works well and helps you get off the apple ecosphere.
macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Correct and what I’ve seen from Jellyfin / Emby are poor looking at best. While I could cobble together a system that works for me, there’s no way anyone I share with would put up with it. Plex is PLEX for a reason.
WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Yes. But there is a different option. There’s a list of clients on the website.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
No but there is an Emby app for every device.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Jellyfin really needs to work on security and server discovery.
As it is right now you have to manually input the server URL unless it’s on the same physical network, discovery won’t even work with broadcasts across VLANs, or over the internet.