Solidarity. New people are being forced to deal with this enshittification wave. We may be immune to it (for now), but the more people involved and excited about the alternative the better it’ll be. Yeah, I got mine… but we can also be involved in something better.

I think the thing is, every news cycle there IS a few people who’s time has come. And so jellyfin is brought up

I say this as someone who has a plex lifetime and is still using plex. I appreciate everyone getting riled up and passionate, because that means the fallback will be that much more polished when my time comes.

You sound like someone pulling up the ladder and yelling at the people below to shut up. Anyone new to the space is dealing with this absurd $750 lifetime price. Of course they’re yelling

Best I’ve done so far is crowdsec + pangolin geoblocking to just my country. I cant install tailscale subnet routers at all my friends to get their TVs to work. Non starter.

Donetick is what I use for this kind of stuff. Still needs a bit of work on the OIDC systems, though