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I say "probably the best we can hope for" despondently. Jellyfin's server works pretty well. The mobile apps, with some nerd-shit tinkering, work pretty well. The kodi UI is tolerable. But using this setup means 1) running a server 2) supplying my own media 3) setting up some kind of solution for remote access (I went with zerotier + a reverse proxy from one of my already overloaded VPSs) 4) figuring out the plugin ecosystem if you wanna access any media you don't have locally. It's janky. I want to say it's also fragile, but surprisingly it hasn't been fragile. It's just janky. But from this setup, I can't access any major streaming platforms (I don't think! I haven't really tried) because they all mandate playback DRM. I can kinda work around this for youtube and things that are yt-dlp compatible, for as long as they continue to win that war, but it's still far less cohesive than a native application. (this is not a problem for me! I suspect it is a problem for other people.) Additionally, as far as I can tell/the last time I looked, there's no peertube support available for current builds of kodi or available for jellyfin at all.