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submitted 10 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[-] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I never checked to see what was actually in the logs but when i was running Plex, it constantly tried to send a lot of log data to its masters. That alone was enough to budge me up and get Jellyfin. Jellyfin isn't as polished but it works perfectly fine for me.

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