Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

  • MSids@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I already own a lifetime Plex pass, so I have no reason to stop using it. They are high thinking that anyone will pay $750 for lifetime. I paid under $100 but frankly I would have paid more, I use it every day. I’m glad that the devs there were able to get paid and provide for their families while making Plex. Plex works incredibly well for me and my family, I will use it for as long as I am able to.

    I struggle to understand why JF users seem to want Plex users to convert so badly. I used JF for a while but things are great on Plex. If I thought JF was better I would switch and my metadata is well prepared for the day I need to.

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      Solidarity. New people are being forced to deal with this enshittification wave. We may be immune to it (for now), but the more people involved and excited about the alternative the better it’ll be. Yeah, I got mine… but we can also be involved in something better.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, pretty much this. I have very little reason to switch, as the price increase doesn’t affect me at all.

      Plus, there are enough known Jellyfin exploits that I’m not comfortable having it on the internet. The vulnerabilities are exploitable even with a reverse proxy. And I enjoy being able to share my libraries with friends and family. I have a few friends who run Plex servers of their own, and having their shared libraries show up in a single unified home page is nice. That wouldn’t be possible if I had to get all of them set up with a local VPN connection first.

      Luckily, the two happily run side-by-side. So there’s literally no good reason to ditch Plex if you already have the lifetime pass.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      I struggle to understand why JF users seem to want Plex users to convert so badly. I used JF for a while but things are great on Plex.

      See no further as wenn Windows does something bad and Linux users come in like locusts.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        6 hours ago

        The difference is that Windows shittiness affects everyone using Wndows. This shittiness from Plex is (currently) only affecting people that are mostly new to the platform.