I canceled all of our subscriptions about two years ago and set up a Plex server. I don’t love the direction Plex is going in so I’m teeing up to flip to Jellyfin, but still, it has been so much better than dealing with all of these companies and nonsense.
I feel like we can’t even call it “advertising“ anymore. It’s such a misnomer. It’s basically data fracking and psychological warfare to make us all into little addicts. This whole industry built around chasing “the attention economy” is a social blight.
Similar boat...I'd also like to swap off Plex but a few of my less techie friends use it and I'm worried about the compatibility/ease of setup of Jellyfin on their devices.
Thought about running both in parallel but that seems like a waste. Think I just need a migration day eventually
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Jellyfin is nice but I could never understand how to setup when all I wanted was to watch videos from server for example.
So I used copyparty[0] and used VLC and set a username and password.
I recommend copyparty if you just want something quick and easy actually. Just try it out on cheap VPS and just run it and forget it.
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I had a lot of issues with plex on Apple TV and switched to Infuse. I haven’t tried jellyfin but figured I would mention it.