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  • Been on jellyfin since day one. Works fine, UI is great and gets the job done. TV UI maybe not top notch, buy usable. Mobile UI just fine and usable.

    Also, exposed on the internet (reverse proxy, OIDC, https the works) for years now with zero issues whatsoever as well .

    There are a few users always throwing thrash on jellyfin, maybe pissed off users that paid for Plex, or Plex shills that like to denigrate jellyfin, I don’t know.

    Just ignore them.

    Jellyfin is perfectly usable, yes you need to setup port forward, VPN or whatever, but it’s exactly our target audience so move along and stop bitching, Plex shills.

    Stay with Plex, use jellyfin, whatever fit your bill.

    Anyway plex does not fit my concept of self hosting to be free from cloud lock ins.


  • As far as I get it, subsonic has an open API implemented by navidrome and a few other open source servers. All subsonic compatible apps will work.

    For Android the best is by far Symfonium, but it a paid app (well worth it).

    Otherwise tempus is another valid and open source app.

    And no, subsonic (and navidrome) has nothing to do with audiobooks or podcasts. I selfhost both navidrome and audiobook shelf to cover all cases, and I am pretty comfortable.





  • Https add an encryption layer on top of http. Except that, they are the same. Also, https provide a way to make sure the website is who he claims to be and not a random hacker website pretending to be it.

    Whatever you do on https it’s encrypted end to end and cannot be read by somebody in the middle.

    For example, if you login to a webpage with http your password will be sent in clear text and possibly read by somebody in the middle (your internet provider, your company, any other network in between …) while on https that same password is encrypted before it leaves your browser and it’s safe until it reaches the server, where is decrypted

    It works with a chain of certificates approved by some authorities that your browser trust, so that beside encryption you can also trust that the website you are connecting to is actually who it claims to be (of course, that require you trusting the web site certificate and chain of trust).





  • Lowering the entry barrier is a good thing… Self hosting need critical mass to support and use all the nice things we like to selfhost

    More so, from the point of view of big tech independence, for those who care, again lowering the barrier is very important

    So welcome to docker and stuff, I use docker for half my stuff or more, it’s just so much more convenient.

    But never stop trying to understand and don’t be a passive docker-puller whenever possible :)


  • ShimitarAtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldIs there room for Windows selfhosters?
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    5 days ago

    Now, let me be polemical here …

    (And this is to be read with a pinch of /s)

    Selfhosting on windows and understanding what you do is so much better than selfhost on CasaOS/ZimaOS/FancyWebGui/Synology and just spin up containers randomly without even understand what a container is and how it does work at all …

    Now roast me :)