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  • Citation needed.

    No citation needed. They’ll either do it one day or the software will languish behind in obscurity.

    Anyway, what’s wrong with being left behind?

    Nothing I guess, other than the competition getting further and further ahead and your users leaving for them.

    We’re not in a race, so I don’t understand how we could get left behind.

    You definitely are. JellyFin doesn’t exist in a vaccuum. You might not feel like its competition, but the jellyfin software competes with all the other media streaming software out there.


  • I always see this and I have to ask: why do you care?

    Because OP is scared of losing their users because of their incorrect thinking that Plex was requiring them all to buy a remote streaming pass, so clearly OPs goal is to not lose their users, right?

    OP asked, we’re answering. That’s kinda the whole point of this thing called Lemmy. We don’t care per se, we’re just telling OP our opinions and thoughts on their questions and proposed solutions.

    Have to agree with the other comment that asks why do you need to use a vpn. Fax

    If you don’t use a VPN you’re putting yourself at risk. There’s no real way around it with Jellyfin, as others have said.



  • Literally nothing changes for me, the plex server host, or any of the people streaming from my server though. Nothing at all. Nothing is ruined, nothing has started to be ruined. I don’t have to pay any more money, none of my friends and family have to pay any money.

    And no, jellyfin won’t do anything like this because they don’t have control over how you use it and don’t force their cloud on you.

    Until Jellyfin no longer maintain it and change to a closed source product that they want to make money from.

    Plex’s own “cloud” that they “force” on you is part of what makes Plex the success that it is, and it costs them money to maintain.






  • Factor in having to instruct everyone to download the app and create an account rather than just go to a URL you can access from any device anywhere and put in your show/movie/song and in a few minutes you have it.

    You don’t have to download an app for Overseerr to add things. It’s just a URL you can access from any device anywhere (assuming you’ve got a domain etc like you must for your web app) and put in your show/movie and in a few minutes you have it.

    Overseerr doesn’t monitor my services either, or whatever else I want to do.

    It does when you set it up.

    No skin off my back, don’t use it for all I care - I was just pointing out that a fantastic ready made service already exists for that.