Muskrat is so thinly skinned, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was monitoring for various domains like this ready to bid up to like a million or some shit LMAO

They’re not just closed source, they started as the open source project response to Plex. It was promised that they would be open source forever. They lied, slammed the source door shut a few years later and pivoted to a paywall.

There was no discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no surveys or polls.

Just a “Sorry we’re going closed source” blog post, Jellyfin was forked from them in vengeance.

It’s very relevant, it directly speaks to how they’ll behave themselves closed where they can make crap decisions even easier.

Plex for all its issues, at least was upfront most who jumped on the Plex train did so with the knowledge that it might enshittify and honestly it’s not as bad as it could be

A bunch of us who started on the Emby train did so under the pretense that at worst we might have to deal with a paid subscription or support contract type of deal.

That was a lie, I was there 10 years ago when it went down, that’s when I pivoted to Plex full time (I had been running both for like a year at that point)

The first stop was when they went closed, they didn’t just go closed peacefully and Jellyfin didn’t fork off in a quiet way either

It was a complete betrayal, Emby made promises that they would remain open source forever. They broke that promise in a slow walked plan. It started with “Oh just some of the build scripts will be closed source, but don’t worry the rest of Emby will stay open!”

Until one day they slammed that door shut with a no notice relicensing and an “Oh sorry we’re going closed source because we just can’t make enough money”

There was no discussion with the community, no alternatives explored and it was mainly the arbitrary decision of a single person. It wasn’t even discussed with contributors.

Jellyfin was forked from Emby in vengeance, not some sort of planned fork like you’re making it seem

Yea because like I said, they’re on an enshittification train on the same track just some stops behind, except they started with far worse decisions

That’s just putting them on another enshitification train that just happens to be a couple stops back, but is still moving along.

How they went about going closed source was unforgivable and also means they will absolutely have no qualms implementing crappy enshitification type decisions in the future

Emby used to be open sourced but offered the Emby Premiere subscription for some added features, and the open source half allowed people to just bypass the paywall, so they closed sourced it. Jellyfin is a Fork of Emby pre-closed sourcing.

You should not be recommending them at all for any reason for that. I was there and saw the shit that went down over it.

Emby should be considered a no-go for all purposes.

Absolutely not, fuck Emby with a branding iron, they’re far shittier than Plex’s decisions.

At least Plex started out as a for-profit company and has never misrepresented themselves as anything but. Unlike Emby.

That’s pretty rude TBH, judging a user just because of what site they came from is not cool, judge them for their actions and words when they get here. Not their former site

That’s when hexbear.net (part of the tankie triad) went offline because their domain expired and the domain admin was MIA. Unfortunately, they were able to reclaim it, so the graph should correct back when they start federating again

Nah voting is the minimum threshold for activity

It’s better than it was a year ago so hopefully with more ex-Redditors it’ll diversify even more

They defed with Hex and Grad, I think they’re partially defed’d with .ml they seem to defed some of .ml’s subdomains but not the main .ml domain

In general .ca is an excellent instance for Canadians, especially if you’re looking to support Canadians, it’s all hosted in Canada with Canadian business

Haha yea! That one sentence probably would have got you banned if you said it on a .ml comm

If you don’t want to deal with them, lemmy.cafe is one instance that defed’s from the entire triad (Hexbear.net and lemmygrad are the other 2 major Tankie instances, but they’re even worse than .ml, so most instances defed from them including .world)

If you don’t mind fighting against them though .world, .ee and the excellently named sh.itjust.works all fed with .ml, but not the other 2

The admins and mods of .ml are huge Tankies and censor all content critical of China/Russia/NK and will deny they’re even dictatorships let alone that they enforce censorship or any other violation of basic human rights

!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works has a bunch of content documenting what they get up to that you might miss if you’re not in the modlog, but ironically for a group that complains about censorship they block that comm from all .ml users at the instance level so you’ll have to look at it in a roundabout way.

lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works should work

Idk I was just thinking that last night, hasn’t been active in like 2 weeks. I hope they’re ok

Welcome back! Just…be careful about what you say on the instance you’re on LMAO

Hexbear went offline as the domain expired, went to auction and the domain admin was MIA. They’ve been restored as the domain admin (unfortunately) came back and reclaimed it

>:( you know too much now

Wait, I’ve been here almost 2 years, where’s my robes‽