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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There's a lot of discussion on a very recent post about doing this for Jellyfin. You should start by reading that: https://discuss.online/post/40181742

[–] tko@tkohhh.social 7 points 2 months ago

This is not an apples to apples comparison because Nextcloud has security built in... it was designed to be published securely on the internet.

That's not to say Nextcloud is perfect and without security concerns, but it's miles ahead of Jellyfin which is Not designed to be published to the web.

[–] 8j1obzlb@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

FWIW it seems Jellyfin has some application-specific authentication/security bugs that complicate things a bit. Of course the same concepts should generally apply, but some considerations will be different depending on what application you’re exposing.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

The state of Nextcloud is not in any way comparable to the mess Jellyfin calls a Backend

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As the creator of that thread, and a Nextcloud volunteer, I can confirm that Nextcloud can absolutely be run without a VPN. That is exactly what it is designed to do, scaling to millions of users.

It is vastly more deployed, modular, enterprise grade, and battle tested. Running it is nothing like running Jellyfin.