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This Week in Self-Hosted (8 December 2023) (selfh.st)

submitted 11 months ago by savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Excited to see the Jellyfin UX improving - it's probably the biggest reason I use Plex over Jellyfin (not that Plex is THAT much better...)

[–] PoopMonster@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I like plex better but damn is it bloated, had to take a almost an hour digging through settings to turn all those plex features off. Now it feels more back to basics.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I prefer Plex for its stupid simple "press here to share your library with your family remotely." And before the Jellyfin folks have an aneurysm, yes I know I can "jUsT uSe a ReVeRsE pRoXy" but I'm a busy guy and frankly lazy. So if Jellyfin wants wide adoption, it needs to make library sharing stupid simple.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's a server federation feature request currently marked as planned, so some form of that is probably coming at some point!

[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Whoa, super cool! I would love this

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

This would be huge, one of the biggest draws to Plex for me is being able to use a single account to watch content across all my friends servers from any Plex UI (be it the hosted one at app.plex.tv or the copy hosted with each Plex server)

[+] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'm aware, patiently waiting for Jellyfin lol. I didn't enjoy emby at all so Plex was the best "out of the box" solution for my use case

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

If you're waiting for Jellyfin to run some kind of relay like Plex, you'll be waiting a long time. That takes a lot of money to upkeep, and the demand for people who self-host FOSS and then want to depend on an external service is very minimal, certainly not enough to sustain such a service. I'd recommend just spending a weekend afternoon learning how to set up Nginx Proxy Manager and being done with it, the GUI makes it very easy.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 11 months ago

People managing their own users is super nice too. Easy self service password resets without me having to do it for them.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

The way Plex achieves the sharing is very convoluted and intrusive. You basically go through their servers and show them everything you have and everything you and everybody you share with are watching.

Most people who pick Jellyfin do it to retain control not give it away.

[–] runninghazard@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

I am in the same boat, once Jellyfin makes it easier to share I will jump over.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 4 points 11 months ago

I hadn't run across this before. Thanks for sharing.

[–] kanzalibrary@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you so much for this! I discovered some good stuff from here..

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Glad to see even more Jellyfin improvements!