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To me this means they know they don't have a viable business model. It's possible they took on a lot of debt years ago, and now they have to enshittify to pay it back. I paid for the lifetime membership years ago, and I would say I've more than gotten my money's worth and I'm mostly still happy with Plex, but I would drop them in a heartbeat if jellyfin was a viable alternative.
People don't like to admit it, but jellyfin doesn't have feature parity yet. I think they could solve a lot of the issues if they went the federation route, but until then, it's just easier for my family and friends to each have 1 plex account instead of N jellyfin accounts. Not to mention the jellyfin vulnerabilities that prevent me from considering hosting it openly.
Could you maybe elaborate on the feature parity? What is missing? I also don't get the info about N jellyfin accounts, as in separate jellyfin account per each different jellyfin server?
Why would you host it openly rather than in a VPN like Tailscale or whatever wire guard is?
I keep trying jellyfin out every few months, but so far keep hitting enough friction that I can't reliably make the switch.
Yes, if me and 5 of my friends have jellyfin servers, we all need accounts on each other's servers. I then need to juggle accounts to access their content.
Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy plugin I could run to mask the problem for myself, but it's not a solution for mom who may have access to my server, and one other friend's server that I don't know.
The correct solution is federated accounts, but the devs have already stated that they don't want to do that.
Then friends and family have to be on my VPN to stream anything.