• Gabadabs@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    A big part of why I use Jellyfin to self host is because I want local, offline access to media. I can host it on my PC, which only took like 30 minutes for me to set up, and use the app to Chromecast it to my tv. That’d be a lot harder if I was streaming off shady streaming sites.

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      1 year ago

      That’s completely fine if you know why you are using it.

      I also love having locally-saved media in case networks go down or streaming sites disappear.

      Still, for people coming from Netflix, it doesn’t make sense to recommend them self-hosting unless they specifically want to self-host. For most people, they don’t see the value of self-hosting and directing them to such solutions just causes them to think it’s either self-hosting or paid streaming.