Plex adds more social features that nobody asked for

Plex has introduced a new feature called "Discover Together" and it's essentially Plex trying to make a social network. You can add friends, there's a feed of what those friends are watching, rating, added to their watchlist and "discussing" and user profiles that show what you've been up to on Plex. Look, I get it, Plex really wants to pretend people aren't using it for watching media they pirated elsewhere and sharing that media with their friends who don't know how to pirate media themselves - but all these features just piss me off, particularly while the real reason we use Plex could be better, such as transcoding and media library sharing. There's never been a better time to give Jellyfin a shot.


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