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To be fair, none are an alternative. They're all only front ends to the torrents you downloaded.
They're not frontends for torrents though. They're media servers just as they all advertise themselves to be. They make media files available to a network of consuming clients. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, all of these services also do the same. They host media on centralized servers that consuming clients can playback. In that regard, these are all self-hosted alternatives to the aforementioned.
It should also be noted that the media in question doesn't have to be torrents, they can be legitimately purchased songs that you playback via Plexamp or Jellyamp on your phone, or all the books you've gotten from HumbleBundle. They're media servers, so they're not limited to hosting just TV shows or movies.
I didn't say front end for the torrent but the torrents you have downloaded.
Jellyfin has no content. As such, by itself it isn't a replacement for a streaming service
Don't forget nzbs! Can't get hit up for sharing pirated content if you're only downloading it!
How do you get started on this? Everything has ads and price hikes all over. I'm already out, I want to get my partner out also.
Look at Sonarr, Radar, and Sabnzbd. There are a bunch of guides out there, but running via docker is probably the easiest. Then swing by the newsgroups subreddit wiki https://old.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/index (I'm sorry it still has the most comprehensive details for this stuff).
Basically, Sonarr/Radar finds the nzb files, then Sabnzbd downloads them.