I wish jellyfin and the apps could ship with something like wireguard setup by default so people that use the jellyfin apps could instantly watch media outside their house without learning what wireguard/tailscale is
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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there are a lot of us still on Plex that hadn't reached the threshold of issues vs effort that would motivate us to migrate to something like jellyfin.
looks like we've arrived.
I already have a lifetime Plex pass so this isn't an issue for me. 6 months from now when Plex decides my lifetime pass has a new expiry, then I'll be motivated.
Jellyfin isn't great, but it sure doesn't have this problem.
Enshittification in action.
Just to say: MythTv is still a thing...
Ahh, memories. The start of my Linux journey nearly 20 years ago
Never used Plex. Jellyfin has always met my needs, so I never bothered to try it.
Jellyfin has lots and lots of tutorials, fyi. it’s not as intimidating as it seems once you get going with it.
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The Jellyfin vs Plex thing always struck me as odd. As in - why are we holding JF to a different standard to (say) Immich, Syncthing, Pi-hole or any one of a thousand different programs people self host?
Yes, JF ships multi-user accounts and client apps etc. I get it, "multi-use" is implied, so the comparison isn't totally unfair. But there's a difference between 'this feature exists' and 'this is the primary purpose of the tool'.
The fact that you CAN share it externally doesn't mean everyone running JF is doing that, or that it should be the benchmark the whole project is judged by.
To me, self host means "I host it, myself" not "I host it and then pretend to be Netflix for family and friends". If that's the use case, then of course, Plex away.
It's cool that you CAN share JF externally, and it's cool that Plex does that differently / better. We shouldn't hold one to the standards of the other.
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