There’s a server federation feature request currently marked as planned, so some form of that is probably coming at some point!
Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (8 December 2023)
kryllic@programming.dev 11 months agoI 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, like the majority of America. So if Jellyfin wants wide adoption, it needs to make library sharing stupid simple.
lupec@lemm.ee 11 months ago
savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Whoa, super cool! I would love this
Toribor@corndog.social 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 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.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Problem is you’re giving Plex access to everything in your library as well, which isn’t exactly palatable
kryllic@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’m aware, patiently waiting for Jellyfin lol. I didn’t enjoy embryo at all so Plex was the best “out of the box” solution for my use case
bear@slrpnk.net 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.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It depends how much you trust Plex then. When I discovered what Plex could do I got rid of it straight away and used samba shares until I discovered Jellyfin.