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I fully respect your comment, and I don't doubt there are good reasons behind Plex. I choose to use jellyfin because I was put off by the corporate product resell approach of Plex that goes against my self host idea, so I never used Plex and cannot say anything bad about it.

But I find annoying and even suspicious that every time there is a Plex or jellyfin discussion a few voices always denigrate jellyfin like it's a no good choice for lack of features or dubious security and such.

Yes guys (not talking to you in specific) I understand that jellyfin lacks those features, many people don't care, and who do care they already know.

Plex’s strengths is it’s ability to remotely stream without jeopardizing your network security.

Doesn't the Plex proxy stream cap at 2 MB/s ?

So unless you are fine with such a low bitrate, opening a port with Plex is also required, be it done manually or with UPNP. (Disregarding VPNs here)

Or am I missing some other way to stream content with Plex?

It's like saying Immich is bad because you don't need to own storage or hardware for Google Photos. I know that. But it's not a valid point of discussion when talking about open source self hosted software.

Also, you don't need to open any ports. Just use tailscale. If you're a bit more technically savvy, set up a reverse proxy. It's honestly not that hard. Tailscale is just an app that you install. Why is everyone acting like it's complicated? Am I missing something?