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I’m curious, just checked out their site.

I’m a little alarmed at needing to modify SSL and port forward and all that shit. My experiences haven’t been great with port forwarding in the past.

In short jelly fin doesn’t seem as easy as you are all making it out to be.

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Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s only if you want to watch it outside your home network, and either way I would recommend not just opening a port to the world like that. I’d say to use Tailscale (which is trivially easy to install) for remote viewing.

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- Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I will check into this Trailscale. Thanks!
  
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Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

In short jelly fin doesn’t seem as easy as you are all making it out to be.

It does definitely require a bit more work, especially because Plex does things like authentication and network access for you, but that’s exactly why all of this drama got kicked up in the first place. Plex doesn’t want to get into legal troubles, however unlikely that may be, for providing access to whatever content people are hosting. It isn’t true self-hosting.

True self-hosting requires work and a small amount of technical knowledge, but IMHO it’s worth it for the freedom, privacy, and control.

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- Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes you’re totally correct, I’ll have to do some more reading.
  
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TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You have to port forward for Plex as well.

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- Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No I believe upnp took care of that in some form, Plex sets it up.
  
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  - Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Jellyfin also supports UPnP, but you really shouldn’t be exposing the raw ports to the public anyways.
    
    Ideally, you’d setup Jellyfin and a reverse proxy like SWAG that handles the SSL stuff for you.
    
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    Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks, I just realized what community I was in lol. Stumbled in here from the everything tab, so now I understand the technical stuff!
    
    I’ll stick around here a while you’ll have me!
    
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  - TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s still port forwarding.
    
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    A well-configured network that follows security best practices always has UPnP disabled.
    
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    Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well, not sure if I have that then.
    
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