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- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Yeah. “How are they supposed to make their money” is a question that I’m grappling with right now. OSS is hard enough with a straightforward MIT license but figuring out how to monetize in this space (that doesn’t always reward nuance), adds a lot of complexity. I’m starting fresh, so I’m not changing anything on anyone… but getting a monetization strategy that is 100% perfect out of the gate is not likely so seeing this vs. a response like Pangolin’s is helpful.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Really glad you replied. Thank you. Your points are really good ones. I want to build something (software) for myself and the community but also struggle with where to draw the line when it comes to making my product generate revenue too. It’s a thing we don’t really talk about when it comes to OSS. Maybe we should create a new category called SOSS, (sustainable oss) lol.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
You have this semi-backwards. The VC isn’t really a leech because Plex pitches the venture fund with a well developed enshittification plan already in place. Assuming everyone is acting in good faith (i.e. the VC doesn’t just want to just shut it down and sell Plex for parts), Plex’s (enshittification) plan is the reason it makes sense for the venture fund to invest in the first place. Plex promises their plan is why the VC will make an outsized return on their investment and it is what the VC validates as part of their pre-investment due diligence. But that plan is created (and sometimes even put into operation) before any VC investment occurs.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
What we should be asking is why “selling a product” is no longer a business model.
Such a good question. Off the top of my head, I can think of two reasons: one cynical, one a little more practical.
Cynical first lol: Maxmize profits. Why charge once when you can charge monthly. I’ll move off this bc it’s a topic that’s been beaten to death, esp. here on Lemmy.
The more practical reason is probably because most software interacts pretty directly with the internet in some way. When we were just installing MSOffice98 with clippy, software didn’t need constant security updates, patches, etc. Remember when there was an update for MSOffice and you’d install Service Pack 1? That was one of the first patches I downloaded from the internet and it was a big deal back then. Now updates come out at least monthly, many times more often than that. I guess that means that you have multple product cycles occuring concurrently, which creates a financial model with a lot more unknowns… which in turn makes it harder to forecast what a product should cost, considering it would be the only revenue generated, per license for the life of the product.
I think selling a product is still a very viable business model, but you have to be a lot more accurate about revenue forcasting and product pricing. I guess it means you have a lot less room for error (from a business perspective).
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I’ve never been a Plex user. Always been with Jellyfin. I’ve heard that plexamp is a killer app but finamp has always been sufficient for my admittely pretty basic needs. But I have a question for you (meant in good faith). You say,
I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.
If Plex needs a sustainable business model, asking for donations isn’t enough. So what is the move for them? What do they do to both fulfill their need for a sustainable business and also not upset their userbase?
I’m genuinely curious how, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, they should have played this or at a minimum, made better than they did.
Very glad you’re with jellyfin btw. You can check out some cool plugins at awesome-jellyfin.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Love this 1 month ago:
The age spike at 69 is 🤌
- Comment on Is there a FOSS selfhosteable alternative to iLovePDF? 1 month ago:
This is really neat!
- Comment on Oh, now i get it! "Peanuts" is because they are nuts inside a pod-like thing, just like peas! 1 month ago:
I think they’re actually legumes, not nuts.
- Comment on How do I run docker compose on Bazzite? 1 month ago:
I wonder if SELinux is the culprit here. Bazzite is based on Fedora, right (like Nobara)?
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on mDNS behind a gluetun container? 2 months ago:
I appreciate the response. I updated it and there was some success in that Jellyfin isn’t throwing errors anymore, which is a step in the right direction. So thank you for that. Unfortunately it still isn’t working. I did a little more log digging and found this:
[16:35:50] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Plugin.Dlna.Main.DlnaHost: Registering publisher for urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1 on 172.21.0.2 with uri http://172.21.0.2:8096/dlna/6a8078b6-cb55-4b46-acf0-64e99f2a7a79/description.xmlI think the issue might(?) be that DLNA is on a docker subnet and my home receiver is on a local 192.169.x.x subnet. I’m not sure though.
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- Comment on Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server 3 months ago:
Not a dumb question at all. There isn’t any software associated with my DAS. It attaches via a USB and mounts like a regular drive. It does have its own power supply so it stays on even when the computer is shut down. Then when the computer restarts, the drive mounts again.
It’s basically a giant attached hard drive.
- Comment on Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server 3 months ago:
I have a qnap tr-004 das. Works great. Raid5 configuration. Attached to my server. AMA.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 3 months ago:
Outside on the BBQ lol
- Comment on Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! 3 months ago:
I’d start with proxmox.
- Comment on I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar? 3 months ago:
Why even take the risk? Just talk about something else.
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 4 months ago:
$80 for a lifetime subscription is reasonable for a well developed app without venture capital subsiding the cost.
Plexpass lifetime is $120.
- Comment on Do you know what your kids are up to? 5 months ago:
Missed opportunity for tmi to reference trebuchets.
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- Comment on Election Analyst 7 months ago:
I’ve watched enough NOVA specials to understand this meme
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 8 months ago:
I’m shocked. There must be an error in this analysis. /s
Maybe engage an AI coding assistant to massage the data lol
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 8 months ago:
