Until Jellyfin is as easy to use for Normals AND it has an actual appleTV app, it’s a nonstarter for me.

Plex is enforcing a change they announced months ago and ONLY requires the server owner to have plex pass which you should already because it’s absolutely worth it. Now, if they made it that my mom and friends and everyone else I share to needed a pass, that’s a different story.

Supporting plex with a pass makes sense. The software is stable and constantly worked on (regardless if you like the changes or not) so Pass is worth it for the features it unlocks.

Jellyfin is great for single users watching on non-Apple hardware in their own home. For me (and I suspect many others) I’m not jumping ship unless Jellyfin either significantly improves on what I need or Plex enshittifies to a point where it’s untenable.

Thanks! Yeah, I was JUST about to pull the trigger on it, waited a couple of weeks, and then this “Plus” version came out and on a discount. Was a bit more than I wanted to spend, but worth it to future proof.

Hey remember the time Republicans complained about the same thing, so Google built a system they could use to bypass spam filters, but no Republicans used it, so Google shut the program down?

Pepperidge Farm remembers. RNC sued Google for filtering spam but never used Gmail tool that bypasses filter