It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

Ig they’re rolling it out in waves, they decided to overhaul their app UI…for the worse IMO

Here’s a comment I wrote on it about a year ago

Tldr; they are an early example of open source enshittification before enshittification was even coined (iirc)

This is going to go back quite a ways, and much of my knowledge is old at this point so some details might be off.

~15 years ago Plex as we know it started out as an OSX fork of the 0G Xbox homebrew software XBMC (Later renamed Kodi (For those who don’t know, XBMC was XBox Media Center and would turn the 0g Xbox into the cheapest Home Theater PC you could get at the time, man those were the days lol))

Plex was only briefly open source and then was quickly closed when they incorporated a year or so after they had something functional. They never made any promises about not charging or being open source or anything, so that’s why I’m generally fine with Plex

Sometime around 2012ish Emby came along as THE open source alternative to Plex and things were good. MOST of it was supposed to stay open source as was promised. From the beginning they kept build scripts n such closed source, probably should have caught on them, but heh ya know hindsight and all that.

Then around 2014/5 they took it all closed source, relicensed it and introduced their paywall including locking away already existing features. This is what pissed me and many others off and this is when and why Jellyfin split off promising to be truly fully open source forever. (There was a ton of drama about it at the time, but it looks like Embys Q&A thing a bit back doesn’t even bother to mention it, imagine that lol)

I don’t have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself, but the way they went about it…yea. fuck em

Am I doing this right

Well if you ask me, not really, I disavowed emby years ago and afaic its just Plex and Jellyfin in this space to me

They like completely overhauled the UI lol

I think this chart might be a bit dated, I’m fairly certain Disney has taken full control of Hulu, not 67%

Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.

Besides, I don’t think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc

Yes, snopes link: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/

There’s a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole while monetizing it and corrupting the next generation.

Even the CEO guy who got Luigi’d was not as bad as Charlie Kirk in my eyes, he just made evil decisions for profit

Charlie Kirk exported his evil. Taught kids how to be evil. To be all manner of phobic. To hate. He actively worked to make the world a worse place

Fuck him

So many things I want to say, but won’t because it’ll probably get me banned…

So…

Thoughts and prayers!

Lemmy has this problem too, its why many think .ml has all these huge comms, but thankfully by MAUs, only like Linux and Privacy are top

(What’s the problem with Lemmy.ml?)

It has in some ways, it’s awfully convenient that features that would harm their ability to spread their ideology get neutered or not developed fully. Like making the modlog less useful, neutering the vote system (Lemmy used to have a more robust voting system, until they noticed that it could be used against them) or still not having a proper blocking system in place after 4 years

There’s also the “soft” issues, instance admins not wanting to take the step of defederating with .ml when they do so with grad and hex because they depend on support from dessalines and they fear he would be petty and cut off support with them if they dared to do so (which prob would)

PieFed is an alternative platform in the same social media category of Lemmy, “Forum and link aggregator”.

It’s younger, but is being rapidly developed, esp considering it’s written in mostly python instead of Rust.

Biggest benefit though, is it doesn’t come with toxic political ideologies attached like Lemmy does (https://lemmy.world/post/29072279)

Also why we’re moving to more generic terms like “Threadiverse” instead of “Lemmy-verse”

Seems you accidentally made the inner hole too big, just make it smaller with some duct tape and you should be good

DEATH BY SNU SNU

The original comment reply to you was all about how the legal system would act, that’s the primary concern. All it would take is a Trump loyalist judge, a Trump leaning appeals court and the right-wing Supreme Court and boom suddenly the CFAA covers a whole lot more than what was “logical”

Not a bad idea, or a mass register of all certified kid friendly domains regardless of TLD that such filtering software can freely pull from

Please instruct me on how I go to the timeline where the legal system always makes decisions based on logic, reasoning, evidence and fairness and not…the opposite…of all those things

You have a lot of trust placed in the courts to actually do the right thing

You say, just as news breaks that the top German court has over turned a decision that declared “AD blocking isn’t piracy”

Dam I still need to watch the last 2 seasons of that show LMAO