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That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.

Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

All I know is I've been told over and over and over that Plex is better than Jellyfin because of reasons, so this latest move won't have me changing my mind!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Plex user from way back. Gave them up, forgot why, but lemmy woke me up. Plex is charging for what exactly? And why would I continue when Jellyfin is every bit as easy and free? I feel like I'm missing something.

(And yes, I got the implied /s. Most of lemmy is very literal, autistic even, missed it.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not gonna deny that there are definitely lots of Plex fanboys, but there are also definitely a number of issues that legitimately makes it hard to switch.

For example right now, I can cast from Plex to my Chromecast. In Jellyfin, the cast menu just shows "Play on my device". Afaik the only alternate app that also supports Chromecast is streamyfin, which seems to be in beta because the cast menu shows icons for my Chromecasts but no name and won't let me select them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've used both and plex is definitely better at many things, they just might not be worth it for everyone.

If jellyfin is working for you there probably isn't a reason to switch.