Hello everyone,

I want to create a Tailscale account to access my Jellyfin server from outside my home, but I’m already stuck at the first step: to create an account, you need either a GAFAM account or OIDC. I don’t have any personal accounts with GAFAM because of Lemmy’s bad influence. My emails are on Tuta. I don’t want to overcomplicate things as I’m a noob, but after spending 30 minutes researching OIDC, I still don’t know where to start… I don’t work in IT (at all).

Is it better to just give up and create a throwaway account with a GAFAM platform, or is there a simple way to do this with OIDC? If so, can anyone point me the way? Is there a free reliable OIDC provider? Will that make things complicated afterward with tail scale?

For more context: I turned my old gaming PC into a media center running Fedora and a Jellyfin server that I access locally. I was surprised by how relatively simple it all was, especially getting Jellyfin to work locally.

Obviously, I wanted to use Tailscale to connect to Jellyfin remotely, but I never had time to look into it. I was told this morning that I’m going to undergo major surgery with a significant recovery period ahead, so suddenly this has become urgent…

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I’ve read blogs that talk about video streaming/TOS issues. Personally, I have had no issues. Just figured I’d throw it out there.

    "As long as the media is not being distributed publicly or cached on Cloudflare’s network, and you are only using Cloudflare to proxy encrypted traffic to your own origin server, this is acceptable use. Community thread quote ~ 2025

    Cloudflare distinguishes between protected internal endpoints versus public-facing content delivery. The former is generally acceptable on free tiers when combined with Zero Trust authentication. There have been no updates to the TOS since this was posted:

    …so, my guess is that it’s still in effect unless superseded by an update. However, it seems arbitrarily enforced searching reddit for data. Again, just a cautionary comment.