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  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    10·
    17 hours ago

    Plex can’t catch breaks recently.

    Self hosting does come with risks though. People should be on notice.

    • Karna@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      10·
      17 hours ago

      In general, for self-hosting, we hardly rely on remote service/server. The whole idea of self-hosting is to shun dependency on external service/server, and run everything on your own hardware and network. So that every aspect of the service is in your control. I don’t think self-hosting comes with much risk, unless you make your service available on Internet.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Well plex can’t be run without it pinging the mother ship…

        But I get your point. I don’t open shit up for remote use.

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          102·
          17 hours ago

          Which is exactly why I never installed Plex and went straight to Jellyfin

            • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
              2·
              13 hours ago

              Was on the fence for a long time, and I made the move just recently (after the pricing changes. Didn’t effect me since I was grandfathered in, but I saw it as a harbinger for worse things to come) With the creation of Wizarr, it solved my biggest problems with Jellyfin. I can just send an invite link, and it creates accounts for people on Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, and Kavita, and lets me set up introductory guides for everything. Despite the menu UI/UX being significantly worse than Plex, playback is smoother, load times are shorter, and it can actually handle streaming to really slow internet speeds, something that Plex had a lot of trouble with.

              The only app I noticed missing was the Tizen app, but they are working on getting it approved. I only had one family member using a Tizen TV, so I just gave them an old chromecast to run off of instead.