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This Week in Self-Host (selfh.st)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 44 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Plex is once again increasing the monthly price users must pay to stream their own media (if this is you, why haven't you purchased a lifetime pass yet?)

Better yet, why have you not migrated to Jellyfin. Why are you paying someone else to view your own stuff?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    The hard part about Jellyfin is that it requires your own domain and some more self-hosting knowledge that a hobbyist might not have yet.

    It's not a super hard transition, but it took me a few months on/off to learn the basics of hosting a website from my house.

    I'm still trying to figure out headscale on a VPS so I can mask my home IP

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I have my own domains, but I do not use them for Jellyfin. I use Jellyfin on my lan or over my personal VPN.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    That means it can't be shared (easily) with others. That's the appeal of Plex and the reason why switching entirely to Jellyfin is not an easy thing to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Exactly, I am not going to troubleshoot VPNs with my mother in law when they have an issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    that's valid, but would you rather spend $8/year on a domain and spend an hour setting it up, or pay a monthly subscription to a closed source plex server?

    Also, there's *arr stack applications for helping non-technical users get set up on your jellyfin server, even helping them get set up with request apps too. JFA-GO is also a jellyfin native option for sending user invites.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, I didn't mean to say I was using Plex there. Jellyfin + domain + reverse proxy is what I do for both Jellyfin and Seerr. I was just saying people who say "wireguard is the only way to go" aren't taking into account all workflows, like sharing with family and having them connect via their TVs.

    I also just don't want family and friends on my home network all the time, haha.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's also pretty insecure so host over the web at your own risk.

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    • [–] [B] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    IP Internet Protocol
    Plex Brand of media server package
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 22 acronyms.

    [Thread #294 for this comm, first seen 15th May 2026, 22:40] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    What is that picture? The blogpost doesn't elaborate on it...

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It looks like the educational website Kahoot. As a teacher, I hoped this was some open source version of it that I might more easily catch the cheating students in my classes.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Razzia, formerly Rahoot. Self hostable.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Lol, seems like they had some trouble over trademarks or something

    Disclaimer: Razzia is an independent, open-source software project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party quiz platform or service. Any resemblance to other quiz platforms is purely incidental

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    🤣 Its not working! 🤣

    Its not working (joke)

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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    This looks really cool

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