Post #3352290

2026-06-19 07:53 UTC

Oh yeah and apparently you can’t stream remotely without a subscription either? If it were a feature they had to spend time on I’d still not want to use it, but I’d understand at least. From the application’s point of view, there is no difference between internet and intranet access. I just saw that downloading the media you already own, using your own infrastructure, requires an even more expensive subscription. How tf did people stick around with this shit for so long.

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@makeshift0546@lemmy.today 2026-06-19 08:29

The same reason most foss projects are barren. Plex focuses on ease of use and giving people what they want. They don’t care about the sub. It’s easy to use and works. Meanwhile jellyfin doesn’t have a remote first interface that isn’t absolute dog shit and I need to set up a reverse proxy and potentially idp to get the ability for my family to log in. This shit isn’t hard. The answer to the community is, make the product better, and start bundling shit in. But I’m sure I’ve already offended some nerd who thinks this is all just so easy and requires no work to tell me I just need to learn Linux better. And that putting in a reverse proxy by default will make maintenance a pain and I just have to put portainer and LE to fix it.

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@WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 2026-06-19 09:07

Haven’t used it myself, but wouldn’t something like Tailscale solve the remote access limitation?

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@scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-19 13:14

If the owner of the Plex server has lifetime and other users that don’t have Plex pass at all and want to watch it remotely, they just need to be part of your home.

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@GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 2026-06-19 14:55

Remote streaming costs money because relay servers cost money. You don’t get worldwide nat traversal without a vpn or wide attack surface for free

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