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Was plex ever good or was it designed to be a rug pull? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the beginning it was quite good. And innovative, but as aged, it went from a local app, like jellyfin, to a centralized one. Their api server crashed once and plex was absolutely useless. Later, they started feeling pressure from the big rights holders and started to pivot to a media hub, and away from pirated content.

I jumped ship shortly after the api server crash, if I couldn't use a local app to watch local content on my network, I didn't want anything to do with it.

I have a lifetime sub to plex and haven't spun it up in over 6 years.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Likewise. Lifetime pass, but I’ll never touch their product again. They really dicked over a lot of people to please corporate threats. Now it’s just an enshittified dumpster fire to me.

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