I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Plex used to be good. If you wanted an easy way to share content with folks who didn’t want to be weird and hook their computer up to their TV it was the only game in town.

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      be weird and hook their computer up to their TV

      What’s weird about that? It’s just a monitor with built-in speakers. Seems weird to me to spend the extra money on those when the TV is already there.

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      Most things used to be good until upper management thinks they know best. Look at steam, once gaben is gone it’ll be ran by an ex ubisoft exec paying himself 5 million dollar bonuses and restricting/stealing your games back (I realize we dont own any games we buy on steam).

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        I mean, they built a whole NFT marketplace into it under Gaben.

        You could argue that the next guy (if any) would be worse at making money from Steam than he is, I suppose.

        Although admittedly their NFT marketplace went the same way all others did. I remember at the time people were shilling that stuff my go-to response to tell them why it’d fail was that Steam tried it and it all trended to zero.