I’m devastated! Holy fuck it’s the end of such a great resource. Is there any other plex share communities active at all?
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don’t request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don’t request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don’t submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
💰 Please help cover server costs.
I run a US based P4S. if anyone is interested, DM me
Reddit destroyed a lot of communities & their own brand in the name of greed & corporate profits. Fuck them straight to hell.
When looking through some reddit archives, I was able to find these for anyone looking to try one. The posts were from December 2022.
Did they ban a sub related to it, or more of the same bullshit by reckoning removing mods?
They banned literally all of the good subs.
Damn. They’re just trying to wreck shit
It be nice if some private trackers offered a forum section, similar to invite section, that offered advertising these behind a certain rank.
I’m on one that is, behind a PT that you have to like apply and get into after a certain rank on the tracker.
Reddit has been shit, but let’s be honest. That sub was filled to the brim with illegal offers for money. Lawsuits waiting to happen.
It’s amazing they lasted as long as they did considering most people there were selling access to pirated media and the such.
I find it insulting that you think my 9703 movie/1423 show library wasn’t legally acquired.
Doesn’t really matter how you acquired it if you’re sharing it without paying all appropriate licensing.
Look up, something flew past your head
Oh I got it, just wasn’t as witty as you hoped. Thanks for the inane reddit level banter. I’m feeling all nostalgic.
Spez is so jealous of Elon’s dumpster fire, that he can’t dump the gasoline on his head fast enough.
Duck you
We need u/fuckswithducks over here
Make one for Lemmy?
Already exists, not active at all. hence are for acting communities.
Give us a link. Lets talk about it how awesome plex shares are and encourage others to share their servers 😀
Now’s the time to advertise it in a thread that has a lot of eyes.
… where?
I can only find a general plex community, not one for sharing.
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I’m still trying to figure out how reddit expects to “become profitable” while simultaneously destroying everything that made it valuable.
That’s the thing, reddit doesn’t need to be profitable for the venture capitalists to make their bag. They’re trying to cash out at the IPO and have no concern for it after that.
That makes it even dumber though, surely? Lots of people invest in tech businesses that are not profitable and have no plans to become sustainable, some idiots even buy them.
It’s things like user count and activity that will be more meaningful in that scenario, so one should avoid doing anything to reduce those figures.
The users reddit lost are the whiniest ad blocking power users, I’m included in this group so don’t take it as an insult, maybe 3% of total users.
Reddit is still doing fine, long term the writing may be on the wall but the venture capitalist just need it to make it until September.
I mean, Reddit was already drowning with repost bots, I’m sure when the time comes they’ll have tons of ““users”” generating loads and loads of ““activity”” to impress the investors
Very poor leadership.
Spez was smart enough to realize that there’s value in aggregate votes on text content in specialized niches for training AI, but too dumb to recognize that the owners of that value are the users and moderators and not Reddit corporate, and that the greatest frontend contributions have been by 3rd party developers.
So he complained about “landed gentry” while implicitly suggesting he sees Reddit as a monarchy where he sits on the throne.
Which in turn pushed users and moderators and 3rd party developers to look elsewhere.
It’s the beginning of the end for the site that for a few years now was my pick for “massive untapped and underappreciated value.”
It’s wild that he failed so badly in even just ad sales. Targeting my profile there based on something like a vectordb of comments, posts, and liked content would have been 1,000% more relevant than Google or Meta could have offered advertisers.
But the fool couldn’t even get their basic search to work.
While many comment on how Reddit enhances Google searches, the flip side of that is how insane it is that people go to Google to search Reddit.
Incompetent man child ruins company. A story as old as companies (and part of why “founder driven startups” is such a piss poor model for entrepreneurship).
I never considered that I search google for reddit before. Good point.
“Become profitable” is just their stated goal.
I think that their actual goal is to look profitable for the upcoming ipo so that the CEOs can cash a fat check and leave. They likely don’t care about what happens after that.
So the “become profitable while simultaneously destroying everything that made it valuable” platitude is more like “they’re cutting down the tree for the wood without thinking about the squirrels”
It’s more like “cutting down the forest to harvest the wood once” rather than “manage the harvesting so that it can be generating wood for generations”. It’s typical capitalism.
Yep.
Say the IPO is 9/1/23. The company wants to do anything they can to juice the numbers for that date, even if it means on 9/2/23 it crashes and burns.
When a company prepares for an IPO, every long-term metric is thrown out the window
Time to figure out if I can short it at the IPO
Not public yet, I’m afraid
But are investors this stupid? Who invests in an IPO without doing research on the company’s activities? If they check the internet and it’s countless articles about how their users and moderators are pissed and leaving, why would anyone think it’s going to be profitable?
The sad thing is that reddit will probably do alright for at least a few years. It may not be an awful investment in the short term.
That said, it’ll slowly burn out and investors will be left holding the bag. But that’s alright, because Steve Huffman will have gotten his payday and retired to the decommissioned missile silo that he converted to luxury apartments in case of doomsday. All he had to do was fundamentally change the way people use the internet by selling the company that his two smart buddies created.
Fucking preach.
Investors aren’t great at seeing what makes or breaks a community. They just want to see how Reddit plans on profiting from the community.
Not necessarily, companies like Twitter make consistent losses with no real path to change that, yet its deemed to have value by investors.
Yes. Look at the 2008 housing crash, and tell me average investors are intelligent.
They definitely do, check out WSB and Robinhood subs
But there are only so many Elon’s that would buy a sinking ship for a shit ton of money.
Not sure if I’m misunderstanding your comment but… it’s an IPO, they’re going from private to public. Twitter was the opposite, which is unusual. Right now Steve Huffman is the musk of reddit.
Sounds like Lynx Africa
They still need people to actually buy the shares of a sinking ship.
There’s gonna be plenty of institutional investors and index funds who don’t give a shit about drama that will buy it up regardless.
SNAP 2.0
For what? To lose money?
That’s the dumbest part. There’s no guarantee that this ipo bid is going to pan out. Huffman is betting big, it’s just too bad he’s so full of himself that he doesn’t realize his actions will probably be what causes this ipo to fail.
He wanted to fly under the radar and make changes that look good on paper while keeping the community relatively the same. Instead he made a splash so big that major news outlets are still talking about it months later, and now he’s actively alienating the volunteer work that holds the whole site together.
Greed kills another thing, history of humankind.
I mean, Facebook is also “profitable” but it’s still an utter shitehole content- and community-wise
@RagingNerdoholic @BraBraBra because what they are looking at to determine profitability isn’t actual profitability. They have certain metrics and they are making those metrics as high as possible. One might be, for example, ads served per page view.
This is such a perfect way to put it.
I still can’t figure out why anybody is using the site whatsoever.
If someone didn’t bother to use 3rd party apps, they probably wouldn’t bother to switch to a whole new platform. Also federated sites are not intuitive and lemmy is scary of you go in without understanding that.
I mean, google lemmy and you don’t get much, its not a .com but rather there’s tons of instances which would just look like fake sites. And the design of the official site doesn’t exactly scream trustworthy. Im pretty tech literate and i had to find a tutorial to join the fediverse.
Im assuming there’s a bunch of folks who just don’t care to put that effort in so they’ll just stick around until it fails to meet their low standards.
I didn’t use 3rd party apps and I’m here bc fuck spez
Exactly this. A huge amount of the major lemmy instances look like sites I would explain to my non-tech-savvy parents to avoid blindly clicking on, between domains that most browsers don’t even automatically detect as links, and a ton of, frankly, sketchy af names.
Just found out about Plex Sharing thanks to your post. sorry I have nothing to add but im also very interested in finding one such servers.
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.
Oh, people pay for that?
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.
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?
Go ahead.
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.
!plexsharesnew@lemmit.online
!plexsubs@lemmit.online
https://lemmy.world/c/plexshares
Lemmit.online is just a bot reposting from Reddit, I’d ignore those ones
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
Just subscribed
Those are mirrors of the Reddit communities. At least the first two.
What happened? Was the subreddit banned?
It was “banned due to being used for spam” by reddit 4 days ago.
Is there a jellyfin sharing community on lemmy ? I ditched Plex years ago but I’d love to share my jellyfin server with folks.
!mediashare@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/mediashare
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !mediashare@lemmy.world
!mediashare@lemmy.world
!plexshares@lemmy.world
!plexshares@kbin.social
Hopefully more people start using these subs 🥴
“@plexshares” exists but is empty.