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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification?wprov=sfla1
Now is a good time to try Jellyfin
This is not enshittification. They are making this pay feature because it costs them to maintain it and keep it from becoming shit. They've been extremely upset front on how they are going about it and why. If you think Jellyfin is better, that's fine but don't act like a service feature costing money instead of being free is somehow making it shittier. People need to get paid for their work. Especially on high demand features that require a lot of upkeep.
I dont agree that streaming files between my own devices is much of a service feature, especially since transcoding is done locally. That's the feature, previously free, now being paywalled. That's the first part of enshitification, however justified it may appear to be.
Jellyfin does this entirely self-hosted, for free, and is open-source.
Plex has lots of cool features but they are paywalling the wrong one here IMO
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CURRENT PLEX PASS HOLDERS:
For users who have an active Plex Pass subscription, remote playback will continue to be available to you without interruption from any Plex Media Server, after these changes go into effect. When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee.
If you're already paying for a Plex Pass subscription, or have the Lifetime Plex Pass, this change won't affect anything. You'll continue streaming Plex remotely and any friends/family who have access to your server will still get to stream it remotely as well.
The cost of the Lifetime Plex Pass is more than doubling in price at the end of April, so if you don't want to pay for a monthly/annual subscription, buy it now while it's only $120. I bought it several years ago and it's more than paid for itself over the years.
Life time subscriptions are just like pre-ordering games. You're paying ahead of time for features that may not get developed and your concerns are no longer valid since you have no leverage to leave.
They have your money. Why should they cater to you?
And because you paid for a lifetime subscription, you're likely to keep using them due to the sunk cost.
I bought a lifetime pass a while ago, and I've already gotten my money's worth. Plex is great, but there's nothing stopping me from moving to jellyfin if I'm not longer happy with Plex. Given that jellyfin is free, and you can run it side by side with Plex, there's no sunk cost. The fact of the matter is Plex is a better product than jellyfin for many things.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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