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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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Also you dont have to be lumped in with the frothing at the mouth Jellyfin users.
Beats frothing for a company, if I gotta froth
It's only frothing if you insist that installing tailscale on your grandma's DSL modem is the best way to share home movies
Plenty of frothing about how jellyfin is a non starter because all 47 of my grandparents can't stream Snakes On A Plane from my server without needing to know how to spell internet.
Like I'm all for choices you know. But I want people to make informed choices. If I'd tried to pitch Jellyfin to my group of gamer friends for sharing media then it would have gone nowhere because it requires more technical knowledge than they possess or that I want to support. They were all able to set up free, relatively secure Plex instances with essentially no assistance.
Funny enough I'm in the "open it to the wan just practise basic web access hygiene" camp, I hope that makes me at least a little frothy
not a frothyboi sorry. unless you're encouraging other people to just open it to the internet with no security in place... that'd be a bit frothy.