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minus-square@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglish8•21 hours agoA lot of people that run Plex have a Jellyfin container on standby, or they’ll use Plex for friends and family and use JF at home.
minus-squareDojanlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 hours agoWhat is the point of Plex? I just went straight for Jellyfin and it does everything I need and then some. Is it just that people went with Plex initially and then stuck with it as it got enshittified?
minus-square@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 hours agoPlex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding. But, I don’t use it. I like Jellyfin. It’s free and while it may lack a few features, it isn’t worse by any measure.
A lot of people that run Plex have a Jellyfin container on standby, or they’ll use Plex for friends and family and use JF at home.
What is the point of Plex? I just went straight for Jellyfin and it does everything I need and then some. Is it just that people went with Plex initially and then stuck with it as it got enshittified?
Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.
But, I don’t use it. I like Jellyfin. It’s free and while it may lack a few features, it isn’t worse by any measure.