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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] zuch0698o@lemmy.world 138 points 2 days ago (39 children)

Ease of use for my users across multiple platforms with minimal tech knowledge on their end. I'm sharing my library with ranges from 12yo to 70. I need it to "just work" and it does that perfectly.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Couldn't upvote this harder. Tried Jellyfin for 5 mins and was super confused why I couldn't find sharing options. After googling and reading about reverse proxies and buying domains and shit I said fuck it and uninstalled

[–] Rijunox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Totally understandable, however basic tailscale version is free and you can just have that installed on all of the connected devices as a "reverse proxy". You then use the ip adress from the server or main computer with the files and connect to its tailscale provided ip adress after turning it on and as long as you have port 8096 open on the server computer (http:/with your adress here:8096) you can connect to the server through the jellyfin app on the device you've installed it on.

[–] Rijunox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I found that the most simplicity way of doing it if you want remote acess otherwise you can connect locally without tailscale

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