Submitted 4 days ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Yes this is the concent form I get.
Why does nobody ever mention Emby? To me, it’s everything Plex used to be before it got enshittified!
I think Emby failed to get a lot of momentum due to having hardware acceleration behind a paywall, and then having jellyfin out there offering it for free. When I was first getting away from plex, emby was my first stop, and then I moved over to jellyfin shortly after because of the hardware acceleration situation.
Yeah that’s definitely true. I gladly pay for Emby and thing it’s worth every penny for how I use it. Jellyfin has got to be the best free+open one for sure.
Isn’t it proprietary?
It is, but also incredibly quick, easy to use etc.
Everything Plex used to be in the good old days imo!
Emby
Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn’t convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was… non-ideal.
So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.
At least that’s my recollection several years down the line.
I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren’t important to everyone.)
And reading this thread I’m apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I’d read this thread only, I’d conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)
No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.
Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I’d go back to Plex before I’d go to Emby, just on principle.
so whats the issue? just declining doesn’t work?
Can’t sell my data if I’ve never given them any
What is Plex?
Its like jellyfin but sells your data
Why would anyone want that?
A software you put on your NAS to stream media
Can someone explain to me why you need anything more than directories filled with files to view content?
I’m struggling to understand why anybody would need or want something like Plex.
I want to watch a movie. I open explorer, go to the folder movies, select the movie, and double click the icon.
The end.
How do I do that with my TV?
You are imagining how to use a computer filled with video files.
Now imagine having your own personal netflix available on a variety of devices, using just that one computer full of video files.
I don’t have the addiction or condition that makes that compelling to me.
I can’t figure out why or how that is a need people have.
Jellyfin user here, glad I dodged the bullet when I had to pick between it and plex.
Tl;dr you want something like plex to:
And the biggest one for me
Because that’s pretty inconvenient?
I need something like
ability to watch from any device
transcoding
watch history and progress save
Is Kodi still a thing? Been a while since I had a media server but I have another one in the works because fuck streaming services
Kodi exists however it’s a client only, it is not made to host content. You are looking for jellyfin
+1 for Jellyfin!
Eh, I’m pretty sure it is. Haven’t had Kodi running for a while, but I used it on a Raspberry Pi with an USB HDD with my content long before I had Jellyfin. Though it cannot stream the content over network, just display it on the machines video output (which is what media PCs do)
That was what I was leaning towards. Do you (or does anyone) happen to know if it is easy to get going on Bazzite? And if so, does it play nice with a Steam controller?
someone should make a jellyfish plugin that brings up a consent screen that says you consent to give yourself over to eevee and naruto.
Do people actually watch whatever plex streams? The only reason I use plex is to rewatch Star Trek for the 18th time.
One of the security upsides to plex is that any number of people can log in with the same credential.
That means that while Plex can harvest information- what account, what’s being watched, IP address, device and player identifier- It doesn’t know who to attach that information to. So you can get dozens or maybe hundreds of users polluting the same account with watch information. Less useful information to be sure.
Nothing is ever truly free in this world. They gotta pay their bills too.
Yeah, and there are decent ways to do that, which many successful companies and individuals manage to pull off every day.
I have no horse in this race because I don’t use any of this stuff, but I despise the direction everything is going.
Human parasites are never happy with being well fed it seems. They aren’t happy unless they gorge until they get fat and explode, or they’re so greedy they end up killing their host.
I hear ya. Thats why i dont use them either. Books are the better entertainment.
Sure, that’s why I paid for Plex Pass. Plex isn’t free.
why you gotta bring reason and logic to this jellyfin orgy?
They prominently point this change out and kind of force you to choose whether you opt in or out. There is a single checkbox to opt out of all. But yes, it’s a bad direction. Just maybe not the apocalypse implied by some.
Can a link be provided to this consent page?
You wil have to clear your cache I think.
And you can say no. Where’s the problem?
Also “personal data” is a bit of a stretch.
On no, an opt out, such a tragedy.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The more services you have depending on a 3rd party which can do whatever the fuck they want, either directly or by changing the rules when the feel like it (i.e. not bound by rules they cannot change, such as root DNS providers are) and then doing it, the less your system is actually self-hosted, IMHO.
For me the whole point of self-hosting is exactly being as independent as possible of 3rd parties that can just fuck you up, be it on purpose (generally for $$$) or because they go bankrupt and close their services.
This is why I’ve actually chose to run Kodi on my home server that doubles down as TV Box even though I can’t easilly use it from anywhere else (it’s possible but it involves using a standalone database that is then shared, which can only be safelly down with custom ssh pipes) rather than something like Plex.
It’s kinda funny to see people into self-hosting still doing the kind of mistake I did almost 3 decades ago (fortunatelly in a professional environment) of trusting a 3rd party to the point of becoming dependent on them and later getting burned when they abused that trust, and which led me to avoid such situations like the plague ever since.
Mind you, I can understand if people for whom self-hosting is not driven by a desire to reduce vulnerability to the whims of 3rd parties (which includes reducing the risk of enshittification) and is instead driven by “waste not” (for example, bringing new life to old hardware rather than throwing it out) or by it being a fun challenge, don’t really care to be as independent as possible from such 3rd parties.