I still would choose Jellyfin over Plex in a heart beat. You don’t need to switch if you don’t want to.

How do you know that? Development happens behind closed doors.

The Jellyfin devs are “dragging their feet” because they do not want to break existing clients.

You shouldn’t expose it publicly

There are better ways to do things in 2025

Honestly this is something that needs to talked about more. I frequently see people roasting on foss but in reality the proprietary vendors have all sorts of dumb security issues.

How do you even know you were hacked? Are you monitoring the traffic?

Products like Netbird and Tailscale have the ability to act as an ingress node on the network.

Alternatively you could setup Wireguard and a simple http proxy like Caddy. Just give your relatives a box to plug into Ethernet. You could even use it as a backup target.

I think the better answer would be to not expose Jellyfin to the internet.

Although it would be cool if it integrated with something like p2panda or libp2p

I personally don’t see a reason to use Plex over Jellyfin. Apparently some people agree since Jellyfin made bank from donations.

It isn’t terrible but it isn’t great

It would’ve been better if he gave a disclaimer

I find it interesting how the remaining Plex fan base gets extremely pissed off when you criticize Plex. Saying how much you dislike a product doesn’t mean that you are attacking the product users.

A large group of people got pissed off at all the enshitification of Plex. It isn’t a personal attack and you are welcome to keep using Plex. However, it is evident that many are looking towards Jellyfin as a better alternative.

That’s what happens when you piss off a loyal fan base

It would’ve been fine with a disclaimer

Nix OS is way more pain than it is worth for me.

There are plenty of alternatives that are much simpler. I prefer just a Debian install managed with tools like Ansible and pyinfra

Works in a enterprise setting as well

One thing to note: the NAT traversal doesn’t always work especially for symmetric NAT. If you want reliable p2p connections I would setup IPv6

Don’t

No need to worry about it if you don’t take the risk. The internet is constantly being scanned by bots.

What are wanting to see and for what purpose?