[hart_russell]

Eh, I was happy to pay Plex a one time fee of ~$120 for a lifetime license. I'd rather just set up Plex in a docker container and expose that port than deal with a bunch of services constantly needing doctoring in my homelab.

[seniorThrowaway]

I've run both and Jellyfin is actually easier to run IMO, since it is in package managers. Also has free android/iphone app. What do you think you have to do in Jellyfin you don't in Plex?

[harrall]

How easy is it to get family and friends to connect to your Jellyfin on like their Roku or Apple TV?

Right now I just have them make a Plex account and they just login. Easy on my part since I don’t have to be tech support.

[DJBunnies]

I see both sides, I paid $5 in 2013, but each time I use it I feel like they keep pushing their own content to the home screen.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I tried to use search the other night, for a movie I know I have. It listed 30-some entries, all for their "Plex content" bullshit. I can't find a setting that turns that off. I have no interest in them trying to become a half-assed Netflix.

[toomuchtodo]

I too have the lifetime pass. A group of us collectively manages >1PB of content via Plex. But we need an offramp to derisk enshittification, and Jellyfin is that readiness capability. If you have no option to switch to when the time comes, you are SOL. Even if I did not use Jellyfin today (I do for a music catalog, but it is not primary), I am willing to provide them recurring donations to make sure they are ready when I need them.

(ymmv, I work in risk management, a component of which is vendor risk management, so the professional mental model gets applied to home systems when applicable; rug pull? not on my watch, and the rug pull will happen eventually)

[azinman2]

How in the world did you amass a petabyte of content?!

[LollipopYakuza]

I understand your reluctance, I was not very optimistic when I started installing Jellyfin.

Turns out it is pretty straightforward and I never had to deal with the hassle of maintenance. The two non-mandatory configuration steps I had to make were: - the file permission to share Jellyfin's library with my torrent daemon. But IIRC this is the same with Plex. - the nginx reverse-proxy with WebSocket for the "watch together like" feature to work

[gf000]

If you already have docker containers setup, then it is absolutely no different to run jellyfin compared to Plex.

[hart_russell]

reverse proxy and domain setup

[hamdingers]

I was happy to buy a lifetime pass many years ago, but as they've removed many of the features I cared about (offline auth, plugins, photo backup, watch together, etc.) I have come to realize that I directly funded enshittification. I wish I could've bought a lifetime pass to the version of the software at that time instead of a lifetime of downgrades.

Jellyfin is also a single docker container, by the way. That would've been an easy thing to verify before making this comment.

[hart_russell]

it's not a single container if I want to be able to have friends/family access it. That would have been an easy thing to think about before making this comment.