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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)
submitted 1 day ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Problem is access outside your home for family and friends.

There are serious security gaps that make it a non starter to expose to the internet.

I've been using Jellyfin ever since they forked out of Envy, and honestly, it's the biggest complaint that I have. It is incredibly difficult to make it available to friends and family who are on various devices, networks, so on and so forth.

Whereas Plex "just works."

[–] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

What security gaps in particular? I did have to reverse proxy to get it to https, are there additional security issues?

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why not use a zero trust VPN like netbird? It is fully open source.

You can create a reverse proxy that requires a password to get through to jellyfin. I think there is a limit of like 5 for this though (unless you pay or self host).

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Because clients would probably fail if there's an authentication layer on front that they're not expecting.

[–] hexabs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait what? I have been sharing my jellyfin using a cloudflare tunnel to the endpoint.

Could you elaborate on the security gaps? How can I pen-test myself to see if I'm vulnerable