They are pretty similar. Plex is more polished though. But what keeps me from using Plex is that the client likes to push content onto me that isn’t on my server. I can unpin those suggestions, but they always came back after some time, which annoyed me. I also don’t like how they handle account authorization. I shouldn’t have to use their servers to log into my own server.

Jellyfin doesn’t phone home ever, and it only ever shows my content.

All that being said, if none of that bothers you, Plex is still a really good media server.

Jellyfin combined with Radarr and Sonarr is freaking amazing. Add in Jellyseerr and you’ve got yourself a Netflix competitor in your own home.

Some people really want lemmy, or the fediverse for that matter, to be reddit. And that’s not a bad thing of its own. But maybe we can let it be what it wants to be.

Personally, I’m fine with Lemmy not completely replacing Reddit, but rather just being a viable alternative for those of us who are tired of Reddit. I’ve only been using Lemmy for a handful of days and I’m already quite happy with it as it is.