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  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Basically, slammed the source code door shut after making promissory statements like "Don't worry, we'll always be open source" for years. With little/no notice they relicensed everything and pivoted to a closed source paywall model.

    No discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no polls or surveys. Just woke up one day to a "Sorry, but we're going closed source because moneyyyy" blog post

    Jellyfin was born right after, forked out of vengeance.

    In retrospect we should have seen it coming when they would do odd little things, like keeping the build scripts closed source n crap, but eh hindsight and all that lol

  • Do only one dish by owning only one dish.

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  • It's not too bad when you can have a dishwasher lmao, but it's still annoying that it has to be done ALL the time :/

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  • They're not just closed source, they started as the open source project response to Plex. It was promised that they would be open source forever. They lied, slammed the source door shut a few years later and pivoted to a paywall.

    There was no discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no surveys or polls.

    Just a "Sorry we're going closed source" blog post, Jellyfin was forked from them in vengeance.

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  • It's very relevant, it directly speaks to how they'll behave themselves closed where they can make crap decisions even easier.

    Plex for all its issues, at least was upfront most who jumped on the Plex train did so with the knowledge that it might enshittify and honestly it's not as bad as it could be

    A bunch of us who started on the Emby train did so under the pretense that at worst we might have to deal with a paid subscription or support contract type of deal.

    That was a lie, I was there 10 years ago when it went down, that's when I pivoted to Plex full time (I had been running both for like a year at that point)

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  • The first stop was when they went closed, they didn't just go closed peacefully and Jellyfin didn't fork off in a quiet way either

    It was a complete betrayal, Emby made promises that they would remain open source forever. They broke that promise in a slow walked plan. It started with "Oh just some of the build scripts will be closed source, but don't worry the rest of Emby will stay open!"

    Until one day they slammed that door shut with a no notice relicensing and an "Oh sorry we're going closed source because we just can't make enough money"

    There was no discussion with the community, no alternatives explored and it was mainly the arbitrary decision of a single person. It wasn't even discussed with contributors.

    Jellyfin was forked from Emby in vengeance, not some sort of planned fork like you're making it seem

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  • Yea because like I said, they're on an enshittification train on the same track just some stops behind, except they started with far worse decisions

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  • That's just putting them on another enshitification train that just happens to be a couple stops back, but is still moving along.

    How they went about going closed source was unforgivable and also means they will absolutely have no qualms implementing crappy enshitification type decisions in the future

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  • Not JUST closed source, the project owner slammed the source shut with no discussion with the community and little notice nor did they even bother to consider any alternatives whatsoever

    They went about it in the shittiest most unforgivable way possible for an open source project.

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  • Emby used to be open sourced but offered the Emby Premiere subscription for some added features, and the open source half allowed people to just bypass the paywall, so they closed sourced it. Jellyfin is a Fork of Emby pre-closed sourcing.

    You should not be recommending them at all for any reason for that. I was there and saw the shit that went down over it.

    Emby should be considered a no-go for all purposes.

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  • Absolutely not, fuck Emby with a branding iron, they're far shittier than Plex's decisions.

    At least Plex started out as a for-profit company and has never misrepresented themselves as anything but. Unlike Emby.

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  • FUCK Emby! What they did was worse than what Plex is doing even now

  • Aliens roll up their windows when driving through our solar system

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  • #SpreadQualityMemeNotCompression #FuckCussorship

    [There's supposed to be a very nice HQ meme here free of cussorship, .world image upload is having issues however. please stand by] fixed

  • NSFW

    I know what I want. It's what you want.

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  • Lol nah, I'll never post on the tankie .ml instance as I'm part of the boycott against them and their tankie censorship/agenda pushing

    I'm cross posting from select .ml comms to the closest relevant non-.ml comms as a small part of those efforts

    !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

  • China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September

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  • Ah yes, "Sinophobia" classic tankie comeback #14 when people talk about the human rights violations of the CCP

  • China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September

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  • Says the .ml tankie in a thread full of lemmings expressing support and agreement with it

    LMAO why don't y'all take care of your censorship problems on .ml first

  • How screwed are you?

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  • plot of the Fionna and Cake series

    The what now‽‽‽‽

  • How screwed are you?

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  • Lmao I'd be off to requisition a runabout lolol fuck this planet lmao

  • Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • There are upvotes and downvotes and they do have some use gauging that content IMO

    That being said, without the corporate structure and profit motive to produce a monetizing algo that encourages others to game it to further their own monetizing goals....it's SIGNIFICANTLY better

    Up/Down votes aren't inherently bad, Reddit and other corporate platforms corrupt it with their profit chasing

  • Buzz Buzz

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  • Nothin but a lil .ml troll