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  • No, I’m complaining about people who act like Jellyfin is a drop in replacement while ignoring everything that would make it harder to user than Plex. I like Jellyfin and I would like nothing better than to have it as my disposal should POlex actually turn evil one day. But the current state is just not feasible if you want a seamless transition.

    I live in a country with a very active and litigious copyright lawyer scene, so I will not take the risk of my server exposing the contents of my library, even if that is a minor risk.

    When I can run Jellyfin and expose it through a subdomain, I will. But the devs have made it clear that that won’t be anytime soon, since they would rather have an insecure app than break compatibility with clients


  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPlex has paywalled my server!
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    12 hours ago

    And if you can wipe the foam from your mouth for a second, you’ll notice I wrote ‘software’ not network.

    But in the end all you’re here for is a pad on the back from the Jellyfin guys for “seeing the light”. So you do you and maybe I won’t have to read more of you Plex posts, since you’re now in happy Jellyfin land




  • So instead of a service that works, I now have:

    • an inferior (and incomplete) client experience, unless I spend money
    • an additional device to allow the client to connect to Jellyfin, because I can’t safely expose it to the internet
    • the responsibility to keep all that additional stuff working for myself and everyone of my friends/family members

    sounds like a great deal


  • It’s also always the Jellyfin fans that get emotional about this. Liking Plex is like a cardinal sin to them and I should be happy to migrate my entire viewership to a new solutions that requires them to install a vpn client on their device.

    Every post I see here about Plex is some variation of Gotcha! or Schadenfreude where they expect everyone to say, “oh no, guess I’ll pack it up and start fresh”