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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 4 hours ago

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.