Jellyfin is a completely open source and community driven fork of Emby, which was a rebrand of "Media Browser" way back in the day. Plex is just creepy, doing

Jellyfin is a completely open source and community driven fork of Emby, which was a rebrand of "Media Browser" way back in the day. Plex is just creepy, doing things like requiring you to sign up and log in through their web portal instead of using the local plex server. Even before the [onslaught of money put into it recently](https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/plex-raises-50m-growth-round-to-fuel-ad-supported-streaming-expansions/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/plex-raises-50m-growth-rou...) Plex did weird things requiring you to ping their servers. I imagine this is going to increase tenfold over the next few years. Gotta hit those KPI's after all. Overall, Jellyfin does not have the shine that Plex has. As a user of Jellyfin since day 1, it is getting better and better every day. At this point, the only platform that doesnt have a Jellyfin app that I really wish it did was PlayStation.