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I agree with this assessment. You do not need an overlay mesh network like tailscale for your use case that is way overkill.
And if you are running Jellyfin as opposed to Plex then you probably care about realizing the security benefits of open source so you definately don’t need a closed source proprietary solution like tailscale or creating accounts on someone elses computer for protection from x. Cloudflair is selling a closed source solution to a problem you don’t have.
This is selfhosting yet these recommendations are all for signing up for accounts and software from the largest centralized systems on the Internet and routing all your traffic through Oracle or cloudflair, lol If your going to do that then why not just host everything with Amazon or switch to Google products. You don’t need any of that noise.
Your best bet is to create a reverse proxy- a single ingress point in front of those few services with a single open port. Pick whatever web server you want your server already has Apache and it like 10 lines of config very simple.
so in order for your friends and family to access your jellyfin server they have to first install and configure the tailscsle client on their devices then install and configure jellyfin?