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I'm devastated! Holy fuck it's the end of such a great resource. Is there any other plex share communities active at all?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well unfortunately it's the worst time to find out about it haha

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we not able to start the same Plex sharing here on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Already exists, not active at all. hence are for acting communities.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You gotta link, brah?

Community can't grow if you don't tell people where to go.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Lemmit.online is just a bot reposting from Reddit, I'd ignore those ones

[–] Blaze 8 points 1 year ago

Actually, that just makes me think that probably those communities should not be added on the LW instance? I remember the admins being quite cautious about piracy.

db0 seems a better home for them

[–] Blaze 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those are mirrors of the Reddit communities. At least the first two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So why not create one on a different instance then?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t have the interest/need for such a community. But I was just suggesting that as that would be the solution if someone is squatting on it on your local instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ELI5 what Plex Sharing is? Is it "stealing" of media files on unsecured PLEX servers? People freely offering of media hosted on Plex servers? And why Plex of all things anyway?

Edit: We ARE talking about the media server software, right?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah it’s just folks too lazy or unable to figure out how to pirate on their own, so some entrepreneurial pirates choose to sell slots on their personal media servers.

I don’t get it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Oh, people pay for that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious what you don’t get? There’s always people will to make a quick buck even if it’s risky and there’s always lazy people who will pay money for convenience (hence why paid streaming is even a thing)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t get why people would pay a stranger and compromise their local security to access material they are 100% able to access themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@some_guy @BraBraBra @_ENTER @DarkThoughts @TornadoValley people are lazy, simple as that. Plex does a good job managing security though. It's pretty secure. All validating via Plex servers. Personally, emby and Jellyfin shares are just as good. Stremio and cloudstream are the torrent equivalent to Plex media player

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i get it. i run my own plex server @60tb and counting. i don’t give strangers access and i think anyone invested in consuming media should be able to set up the content locally or pay the creator. i don’t understand people who pay a shlub to run radarr and plex on a random server adminned my a stranger.

it’s idiots like OP that beg and demand free content in public spaces that end up spoiling it for the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I admin a Plex server for my friends and family. My mom doesn't know how to pirate stuff so I mailed her a roku with my Plex already set up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

People rent out access to their plex servers. Some hosted at home, others in paid server space. What media is on them is up to whoever manages it.