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๐ดโโ ๏ธ (for legal reasons this is a joke)
You shouldn't joke about these things, man.
I accidentally set up a home server running Plex/Jellyfin, and now I control all my media without paying ยฃ18 per month (and probably due to rise soon, like the US pricing) to a company that only has a handful of things I like and regularly takes away content, plus prevents account sharing.
You wouldn't want someone else to accidentally do that, would you?
E: yes people. I get that your setup is expensive. But you don't have to spend a lot. You can host a Plex server on an Nvidia shield with some external storage, you can buy an old crappy PC/laptop on eBay (bonus: a laptop comes with a built-in UPS!). A media server does not require beefy hardware.
Im slowly wrapping my head around the jellyfish thing ...very slowly. But lets not pretend the server space isnt the price issue. I couod spend 5 years of netflix subs to get to a decent raid protected level.
If you want to take on archiving a huge library of media, more power to you. But that isn't a requirement. Many people use streaming downloads so that local storage is basically not required. Others download and set up services/plugins to delete episodes after they have been watched to ease storage requirements. Even if you want to keep all media, Raid is certainly a luxury, not necessity. Losing all of the media from a drive just means needing to download it all again.
And all of this is completely out of the argument of "feature parity" with Netflix. They drop shows and movies from their services all the time.