Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
www.androidauthority.com/plex-price-hikes-get-jellyfin-3663600/Replying to @KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org
Projects like Plex, they started out from the open source community, had free contributions, and then monetized. People are bastardizing open source.
Replying to @little_tuptup@sh.itjust.works
The reason Plex is as popular as it is is because of their infrastructure and software that lets users stream video and music remotely on any device at the press of a button. That costs money to build and maintain.
Replying to @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
Really? Cuz Jellyfin literally does the same thing and doesn’t cost money.
Replying to @FaygoBoozer@lemmy.world
Jellyfin does not handle NAT punching automatically to point that a non technical user can install an app on their TV, see one or more libraries, and connect to my server across the Internet. This is the biggest problem that Plex solves compared to Jellyfin. I can’t expect my parents to install Tailscale or make any changes to their network.
That being said I use Jellyfin. I just don’t share it with my friends.
Replying to @chaospatterns@lemmy.world
You don’t need to use Tailscale to access Jellyfin remotely. You just have to forward the port and use your public IP. I get that that’s “insecure”, but I don’t understand why everybody makes such a huge deal about it and acts like you have to tunnel in securely when you have to do the exact same thing for Minecraft (et al) servers and everyone just accepts that as the way it’s done.