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There are several good alternatives to Plex. Time to give them your support.

Sadly, the signs were all there, but it sucks that we need to start thinking of upending existing setups. That said, currently running jellyfin as a test to replace plex ( different reasons ). So far the experience was good. What seems to be missing is the ease with which you can share your library.

It's a great opportunity to use an open ecosystem that cannot be captured and enshittified. Better to build on a shared, open platform versus paying someone who is trying to squeeze the enterprise for all its worth over time.

Where Jellyfin lacks, I would encourage contributions so that it lacks less, over time. Hopefully, it will eventually surpass Plex, making Plex redundant while Jellyfin remains open.

(i run Plex and Jellyfin side by side on top of a multi PB library)

> multi PB library

Of? Ripped Blu-rays?

Library contents are out of scope and irrelevant imho. "You do you." I'm supporting end to end open media storage and playback in this context, regardless of underlying content or media. Legal content, pirated content, adult content, does not matter to me what folks want to store and serve up. The issue is digital sovereignty over your compute.

Over time, it'll all be served out of archive.org eventually anyway as copyright slowly expires over centuries [1] (life of the creator + 50-70 years lol). We can find more valuable topics to argue about, imho.

[1] HN Search: public domain day - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=public%20domain%20day

Sounds about right. What have you (and/or fellow commenters) had good experiences with?

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