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There is a third option, the program that Jellyfin was originally forked from back in 2018, Emby.
Sort of the middle child between the two. Nearly identically to Jellyfin for obvious reasons, several third party apps for Jellyfin work with it as well like Jellyseer, it has apps for nearly every device, and easy external connections via their servers like Plex does.
They do however have a premium subscription system like Plex to support things like those servers. It's not as expensive as Plex, even before the recent rate hike, but it is there and some stuff is locked behind that premium license.
So all the bad things of both, still a proprietary product that you can funnel your cotent through servers you don't control while simultaneously not being plex.
But also benefits of both, reduced cost with easier remote setup, while simultaneously not being plex
Also you dont have to be lumped in with the frothing at the mouth Jellyfin users.
Beats frothing for a company, if I gotta froth
It's only frothing if you insist that installing tailscale on your grandma's DSL modem is the best way to share home movies
Funny enough I'm in the "open it to the wan just practise basic web access hygiene" camp, I hope that makes me at least a little frothy
not a frothyboi sorry. unless you're encouraging other people to just open it to the internet with no security in place... that'd be a bit frothy.
Plenty of frothing about how jellyfin is a non starter because all 47 of my grandparents can't stream Snakes On A Plane from my server without needing to know how to spell internet.
Like I'm all for choices you know. But I want people to make informed choices. If I'd tried to pitch Jellyfin to my group of gamer friends for sharing media then it would have gone nowhere because it requires more technical knowledge than they possess or that I want to support. They were all able to set up free, relatively secure Plex instances with essentially no assistance.