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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[โ€“] valar@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is my POV. It already works perfectly, is prepaid, and is accessible to my nontechnical users. Switching would be a major pain for a worse experience.

Also, Plexamp.

Someday in the future no doubt Plex will enshittify for lifetime users such that it will justify a change, but that hasn't happened.

[โ€“] MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 weeks ago

+1 to all of this. I paid for it when it was $90 lifetime, before either Jellyfin was popular before I heard of it, who knows. It works fine. No reason to put extra effort into replacing something that I have no problems or qualms with.