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Jellyfin looks better to people by the hour.
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.
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.
But I like sharing my plex library with people.
Jellyfin’s gonna be a bigger project than I thought I guess.
This is why I’m still on Plex. I would love Jellyfin to make that easy somehow but I get it.
That’s why I mentioned Wireguard is trivial. :)
On Android I can have the VPN active basically 24/7, it’s basically transparent in daily usage.
That does not fit my use case.
Or don’t open it to the web at all and just use it as a local streaming platform in your home.
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
If you can set up Jellyfin, you can set up a reverse proxy using Caddy. It’s dead easy.
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”
Why would you need a public domain? You should be able to use your IP address.
Or traefik
It amazes me how many people jump immediately to Jellyfin and A. Skip over Emby and B. Never ask what someone’s use case it.