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[–] [S] 33 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Jellyfin looks better to people by the hour.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I’m no Plex fanboy but from what I’ve read Jellyfin auth leaves a lot to be desired from a security standpoint, particularly if you are opening it to the web. And chances are if your jellyfin server was breached, you wouldn’t get an email about it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's simple, don't open it to the web directly.

    If you have the ability to make your server public you also have the ability to put Wireguard on it, and after initial setup it's trivial to use it.

    You shouldn't really host publicly any service that you won't be monitoring regularly for security incidents.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But I like sharing my plex library with people.

    Jellyfin’s gonna be a bigger project than I thought I guess.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Until you try to share your library with someone and have to parse terms like reverse proxy or figure out how your mom can install a vpn on her Roku

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you can set up Jellyfin, you can set up a reverse proxy using Caddy. It's dead easy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And you also need a public domain. So I have to register, pay for, and configure that as well.

    Recognize that we're on like step 7 of "just use Jellyfin instead of Plex"

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