I’ve been thinking about this more and more. According to the sidebar, this community is “A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.” Based on that I don’t think Plex qualifies.

Privacy: Plex clearly records the metadata of what you watch. When I used it, it would send me a report by email of what my “friends” were watching. Even with that turned off, their services still track telemetry.

Control: Plex has all of it. They can (and do) make unilateral changes to the service, how authentication works, where you can run it, etc.

So I ask, when you are hosting something that is entirely dependent on a commercial entity to function, is Plex really selfhosting in the spirit of this community?

  • CallMeAl (like Alan)@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Freedom to do things as we’d like is part of the reason why we’re all here, right?

    100% and the mods are also pretty good about removing off topic posts. My question is about understanding what this community thinks and where that line to what is off topic is. There are certainly things you can do with a server at home that would be off topic for this community, right?

    • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      There are certainly things you can do with a server at home that would be off topic for this community, right?

      I don’t want to hear about hosting CSM but anything else is fair game imo