This was my exact experience as well. I’ll never know how Plex compares to Jellyfin because I immediately noped out when I ran into the account creation.
Frankly baffling to me that anyone with the wherewithal to self host thought that was okay.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I installed Plex a couple years ago and when I found I actually had to sign into their servers to access my own media it was immediately uninstalled. It was only a matter of time before they pulled this kind of shit.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you can disable authentication on your local network.