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Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 month ago by KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When plex initially exploded in popularity, the alternatives required like manual xml config, constant babying the database, and generally barely worked.

Plex had apps on all the devices from wii to your phone and just worked. There was also lots of promises of privacy, you owning your data, segregating accounts to coordinating direct access, etc etc. It was almost a no brainer because there was no alternative that could deliver that experience.

Now is very different. The vibes at plex are very different, the world is a lot more hostile to privacy, and there are open source alternatives that get very close to the same experience.

So for a lot of people, yeah, plex doesn't make sense anymore.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah if I were starting now I'd be looking at jellyfin. But I paid the lifetime plex pass, and inertia/laziness what it is, so I haven't found a reason to actually switch yet.

[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

I thought the same until I was bored one saturday afternoon and set up jellyfin as something to do. I haven't taken my ples server offline only because I don't want to help my users switch.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Same. I'm kinda half migrated running both but plex is convenient and (for me) still free.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Neat idea, they don't interfere with each other. Run both so that when plex finally fucks us over, we just stop using it.