Comment by BraBraBra@lemmy.world on reddit fucking destroyed the plex share community.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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)

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.

@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

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.

Oh, people pay for that?

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.

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

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

So why not create one on a different instance then?

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.

You gotta link, brah?

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

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

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

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

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reddit fucking destroyed the plex share community.

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