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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years

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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years

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Plex, the Slow Creep of Enshittification

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After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.

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Doesn’t that mean your jellyfin server is directly exposed to the Internet? The very thing everyone constantly warns against?

I’m still on Plex, one of my biggest hangups with JF is that the remote access is kludgy

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