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[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've changed the title to better align with the context. Doesn't change the fact that Plex is a gobshite is ran by a company 🙃

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks OP, appreciate it.

I’m not disagreeing with any of your other statements. The enshitification is real. However, let’s not put them in the Adobe camp just because they are selling ad metrics and open about it. That’s actually transparent and still only applies to people watching content with ads in it.

The overall Lifetime Plexpass user is completely not affected by this, so the entire first reaction to your post that it’s time to ditch Plex for some other platform is not really justified.

People who are using Plex for just selfhosting without using their free online streaming stuff are not affected by this at all.

But eventually yes, I’m sure capitalism will also kill Plex. But possibly our planet and entire civilisation before that.