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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

Not OP, but I have similar feelings and they have nothing to do with the client or plugins. If I can't easily and securely share my Jellyfin with the Internet beyond my LAN without resorting to a VPN, then Jellyfish is not going to come close to replacing Plex. Sharing my library securely with tech illiterate family and any browser I have access to, without modification, was the one and only reason I moved away from XBMC/Kodi and installed Plex in the first place. Jellyfin is fine inside my LAN and for my personal use, totally fails at hosting.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Sharing my library securely

    As long as you don't mind sharing your library with Plex and relying on them to authenticate everyone and get accounts.

    I get why you are saying this, but to me that is a big negative. As long as I am going to self host, I might as well do it right and not need a paid third party I have no control over on my server.

    On the other hand, I only have about 4 households I am interested in sharing with, so it was easy to configure that and be done with it. I have no desire to share to my family and they really have no desire to use it, my friends just don't care. So I can understand it was easier for me to fill my use case.

    I wonder if we are at a tipping point, where someone would be willing to pay just for the Jellyfin to Internet connection (basically a plex like plugin or additional container).

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