• Carrot@lemmy.today
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      For those with preexisting lifetime memberships, things haven’t changed yet (outside of basically trying to make Plex a social media thing), but in my eyes it’s only a matter of time. Made the switch to Jellyfin this week after having used Plex for 5 years. If I wanted to invite new users to join my server, they’d have to pay $2 a month to be able to watch on their phone instead of the one-time payment of $5.

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      14 hours ago

      Plex is completely enshittified at this point.

      • You need to pay if you want to share your movies with friends
      • They spy your watch list, and share what you watched with your friends by sending them emails
      • They released a new half broken app
      • They removed the “party” option that let you watch a movie together with friends remotely
      • They’re actively trying to hide the personal streaming features in order to push people to their legally (and ad-riddled) streamed movies

      So Jellyfin is now the best solution afaik

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      Yep, big time. Basically dead at this point, forcing payments to stream your own content.

      I started setting up my homelab last month and immediately went to Jellyfin because Plex just screamed “corporate bullshit” to me. Sure enough, it was the right call.

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        Basically dead at this point

        For free users though, there are some of us who paid for Lifetime Plex Pass tier a long time ago… I do wonder if Lifetime really means forever though.

    • ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They made it so server owners need a plex pass to stream to anyone outside the same LAN. Or the clients need to pay $2 a month if the server owner doesn’t have one

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        2 dollars just for providing the tunnel service, mind you. A subscription for glorified port forwarding.

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          The glorified port forwarding issue is even worthless if you are a CGNAT user, and it is 2025 so I’ll assume everyone is.