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        • GregorTacTac@lemm.eeEnglish
          279·
          2 months ago

          Lemmy.world is hosted by real people, not corporations with tons of money to spend. Getting sued could potentially ruin the admin’s life, so it’s perfectly understandable.

          • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            51·
            2 months ago

            If they actually consulted a lawyer, I’d be fine with the decision.

            They did not. They make rash, uninformed decisions, based on feelings not reality, as a knee jerk reaction to other unrelated events.

            So it’s not very understandable. They could have consulted a lawyer for less than a month of their hosting costs.

          • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            37·
            2 months ago

            There is literally zero possibility of them getting sued over this. It was nothing but a way to cement their hold as the biggest community. Yes, this makes me a hypocrite. I’m just too fucking lazy to switch.

            • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              In the US, you can sue anyone for any reason, even if it’s frivolous.

              You force the other side to respond, making them hire a lawyer to defend you, even if the case is dismissed on its merits.

              I very much disagree with lemmy.world’s decision to block the community but I completely understand it. I exercised my right to move to a new instance in response.

            • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I’m not even going to get into the lawsuit talk, because the problem from my perspective is that certain hosts will stop working with you if you get too many takedown notices.

            • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Sorry, why would blocking piracy communities cement our hold on anything?

              Just to be clear, I wasn’t involved in the choice to block piracy related communities, but I just don’t see how blocking them helps the hosts in any way except preventing legal disputes.

          • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I like dbzer0 but also really like sopuli.xyz and slrpnk.net. Oh also literature.cafe.

            All of them have great uptime too.

            Can’t go wrong with any of these. They’ve all got good local communities too.

        • soratoyuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Ugh. I do like the idea of defederating in theory, but this is the third time I’m going to have move instances because something I want access to is blocked.

          Is this just a ‘me’ problem or something everyone has to deal with from time to time?

          • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 months ago

            We all gotta deal with it on any instance that is not your own. It’s not unheard of for people to create their own lemmy instance so they have exacting control over their federation.

                • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  I haven’t had any issues. Mods of the communities I’m subscribed to usually handle it before I even see it. I mainly only deferedate for political reasons, like Threads.

            • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              I have a simi-public instance, I made the decision to not federate with the NSFW instance as having [posable] non-consensual/underage manga/other content that is treated much harsher here than Piracy ( that is a pure civil thing here) and keep federation with !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

          • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            I had the same issue when initially coming to Lemmy, and made several accounts before I got so annoyed I did the research and chose an instance specifically for its federation/defederation policies; which led me to where I am now.

            Lemmy.zip has defederated only illegal content such as csam and gore, as well as meta because fuck corporate.

            I just generally dislike the idea of an arbitrary censorship list being applied to my content feed, I can choose and block myself.

            • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              I also would rather manage what I block or federate to. I hate that Lemmy enables instances to have too much control over its users, deciding what you can and cannot see and admins can see your PMs too. I got fed up with Lemmy.world because of their federation fuckups, why would communities that talk about piracy but don’t link to anything cause an admin to get sued? They won’t, reddit allows more piracy talk than Lemmy.world does lmao. Obviously Nintendo searches through the fediverse for anyone even saying they pirated stuff, right guys?! Nah I just don’t care for their admins. I usually dont agree with whatever their admins say, I even saw someone from world complain about Lemmy.world policies on their thread and the user got their account deleted by an admin with a nice smug response from them. I can’t have my own instance since I don’t have the money to spare, otherwise I would since it is BS that Lemmy doesn’t allow users to have the same control over their feed as an admin.

              • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                What you’re complaining about is impossible to do without hosting your own instance. I’m not even talking about Lemmy here, in saying from a software perspective. Like you’d have to have local encryption keys only to prevent a host from reading your messages. And there’s no way anyone would just host whatever because the users want it.

                • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I prefer end to end encryption, like in Matrix, Signal, SimpleX, etc. So I don’t use Lemmy for PMs since they are not actually private, hell I went quite a while where I stopped using Lemmy because it is not meant for someone interested in their own privacy despite the irony of having multiple privacy focused communities. If someone doesn’t want to host instances dedicated to CSAM I could see them wanting to defederate, but so far I’ve seen defederation used as a temper tantrum. It’s always over some stupid drama. If you don’t want to host whatever then what is the point of opening your instance to other people? I fail to see why someone would bother going through this trouble and then say no you can’t view this community meant for modifying your nintendo switch. Even reddit does not care as much as the instance owners on Lemmy do. It’s just baffling. Also good luck deleting your posts and comments. Ugh this convo makes me hate Lemmy again.

            • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              I have both an account on Lemmy Zip and on Monero Town and both of those are really good about not defederating most things.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        I would be pretty annoyed to let lemmy.world decide what I should read on the Lemmyverse :)

      • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’m on the particular community. It’s a Piracy community which has an entire megathread to everything related to Piracy, such as: movies, games, tv shows, software and anime.

  • Arkouda@lemmy.caEnglish
    551·
    2 months ago

    Every time I hear something about Netflix I always wonder how it is even still running. Still wild to me that they had the entire monopoly on streaming and fucked it up anyways.

    • anon@lemm.eeEnglish
      47·
      2 months ago

      Netflix didn’t fuck their monopoly up. They just didn’t have an eternal technological moat. Their monopoly had an expiration date which is why they shifted to content generation.

      Nowadays the problem they face is that there isn’t enough people on the planet to grow forever, so in order to keep growing they have to squeeze harder.

      Their content is terrible tough, there they did drop the ball.

      • InternetUser2012@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Seems like everything they made that was good was cancelled after one season. I dumped them for that, then they went all greed and now I hit the high seas if there’s something I really want to watch.

          • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I don’t watch a lot of TV so it’s enough for me. Although to be honest if my partner ever gets smart and leaves me I’ll drop all streaming and just use i2p. 😆

    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      In their defense, they didn’t fuck it up (at first), media publishers saw there was money in streaming and decided that they wanted a bigger slice of the pie. When everyone is trying to take the whole pie for themselves, no one ends up with any pie.

      However pretty much every move they have done in the past 5 ish years has been fucking it up.

      • Arkouda@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        No they screwed the pooch hard in the beginning. They could have bought up rights to basically everything for pennies compared to what it is worth now because of the leverage they had before any of those media publishers had options elsewhere.

        Netflix was literally in the position to tell them what the price was back then and now they have nothing to bargain with because the market is saturated.

        • obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          That’s basically what Netflix did in the beginning. The challenge for Netflix is that the media companies they were licensing content from weren’t dumb, so the licensing agreements were time limited. The media companies caught up and built their own streaming platforms and now Netflix is at the receiving end of disintermediation.

        • dmalteseknight@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          But wouldn’t them buying all the rights to “basically everything” incentivise them more to jack up prices and include ads since the user base has no legal alternatives ?

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Seriously. I was subscribed from the time they first started streaming… And then years later they remove the entire rating system, and replace it with a system clearly intended to confuse and manipulate their users into thinking they have better and more plentiful content.

      I dropped Netflix then and there, and never looked back. They stopped being a great service at that specific moment.

    • Delusional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I haven’t pirated stuff in years but started again this year. It sucks that my favorite torrent site was shut down though.

        • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m gonna look into this, thanks! 😄

          I have a few go-tos foe different types of content but it’s always scary they might just stop existing one day.

          …I mean…piracy’s bad m’kay 👀

          • Land_Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Go for the Arr suite. Radarr for movies, Sonarr for series. They work well with Jackett, and actually have an even better (use comfort) alternative to it called Prowlarr. Once set up, maybe spending a couple hours understanding how they work, downloading a movie or a series is as easy as entering its name in a search field, seeing the related list (completely accurate), hitting add and watching the torrent start automatically. And if Jellyfin is configured as well, I can start watching whatever I downloaded with a couple clicks right away on any device I have Jellyfin, in full whichever quality my pre-set profile searched the torrent sites for. That’s quite the supply chain, centralized after landing on your host computer, streamable to any local devices or online devices, and can be automated to even search and download queries that come through discord messages.

            Understanding the indexer stuff can take a little time at the start, but it is actually as easy as saying that Jackett/Prowlarr is just the middleman between you typing your movie name and searching through all torrent sites you want at the same time. The net has videos of using them if they look confusing at any point. Using Radarr/Sonarr themselves after setting up the indexers is as straightforward as using any streaming services.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I started last year again, after they killed the family plan if you don’t share a household. Instead of paying $10 to Netflix we now pay $7 for a 2TB cloud storage account where everyone uploads their pirated movies.

  • ozoned@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    I LOVE this bit:

    "will stop measuring its success in new subscribers, but in growth byr egional revenue."

    We’re hitting our self defined goals JUST fine guys!

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      Seems reasonable from a business point of view. They are approaching a saturation point and changing how they make money so shifting the KPIs only makes sense.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    2 months ago

    What is Netflix?

    Is it that thing that shows up before I watch whatever the fuck I want on one of the dozens of free streaming sites?

    Arrr matey.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Streaming sites? My brother in Christ, you need to ditch those unreliable websites that hardly work and go down all the time, and get a proper media center setup. Here are some terms to look up to get you started:

      • Stremio
      • Stremio addons: Torrentio, Streaming Catalogs, Trakt.tv
      • Real-Debrid

      That’s the basic setup you’ll want for a proper good time. Instantly stream any show or movie from any provider for free (Netflix, Disney, Prime Video, HBO, Apple TV, etc.). Get recommendations based on your viewing habits. Compatible with all your devices, including smart TVs. Torrent-based so it won’t get taken offline (at least not anytime soon). Torrents are already stored on a server so there’s no waiting on seeds (which is what Real-Debrid does. Optional and $3/mo but it makes the experience much smoother, especially if you want to watch something older/more obscure. And it eliminates the need for a VPN. Plus it works for any torrent, not just media).

      Trust me, this is the way to go. Once you get everything set up, it’s so easy and straightforward to use that my grandmother could navigate Stremio and not even know that it’s a pirate service. Good luck and happy sailing. 🏴‍☠️

      • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I watched furiosa in HD 2 weeks ago.

        Zero problems.

        I watched house of dragons a few nights ago, no problem.

        Last night I watched the original episode of ancient aliens no problem.

        I use Firefox, bookmarks (many sites exist), and ublock, and a proxy.

        I spend zero dollars. I have zero problems.

        I have all the things.

        When all the sites get banned, I might take more drastic measure. For now, I have no problem even when one or 10 sites go down.

    • Manmoth@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      I have a media server that I use and if I’m going to watch something I think that’s the only way to go. With things being the way they are though I’m starting to think that we should just return to books. The “content” industry is just a gambit to extract money from people while turning their brains off.

  • TFO Winder@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    We are officially round the circle.

    From cable tv with ad breaks to streaming ad-free and back to streaming with ad breaks.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Cool, I was planning to cancel this month anyway. I just finished ripping all of our DVDs and Blurays, so I have quite a bit of content ready to go. I have told my wife and kids I’ll buy whatever they want, within reason, and rip it to our private streaming service. I think we’ll end up saving quite a bit of money eventually this way, and we have no ads with our self-hosted video service.

    • Entropywins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Not only no ads but shit you actually want to watch and all right there no hopping from this service to that service to watch a frickin show

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yup. The main issue is exclusives, but most of those suck anyway. I told them we’ll give it a few months and see where we’re at.

        But between the two, I’m spending $40/month to avoid ads, so it’s probably cheaper to just buy what we want to watch instead.

        • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          A 5TB portable hard drive only costs as much as three months and can hold most of the stuff you ACTUALLY wanna watch. To be fair, DVDs and BluRays can get expensive but at least that’s yours forever and you don’t have to worry about the studio suddenly deciding you need to subscribe to THEIR bullshit too. If it’s not available outside of streaming, well Gabe Newell said it best.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Jellyfin. I was previously just using minidlna, but Jellyfin has an app for our TV and looks much nicer than the basic interface dlna offers.

        I’m running it on an old PC running Linux, and it was pretty easy to set up.

      • meanmon13@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Don’t know about OP, but Plex works great! Get a Synology NAS and run your Plex server on that

        • kalpol@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          2 months ago

          Plex is pretty commercialized these days and I don’t doubt they’re likely selling your data.

    • tamiya_tt02@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’ve tried ripping my DVDs and can’t get it to work. Can you share details on how you did that?

      • Account_93@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        I use Handbrake or MakeMKV depending on the disc. MakeMKV I mostly use for Bluray, Sometimes the odd DVD doesn’t work correctly with Handbrake.

        In Handbrake, I just select the Quality and keep original Audio source, I’ve not needed to change any of settings.

        If you use MakeMKV, Its “raw” so large file size (Some Bluray files I’ve had are like 40GB), You can run that file through Handbrake to reduce it.

        • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          This may be more involved than most people are willing to go but just wanna add:

          • This can be painfully slow without a dedicated GPU. Even low-mid range dedicated is gonna be a huge upgrade over CPU or integrated GPU so get one of those (if you can) or prepare to leave it overnight.
          • I recommend playing with Handbrake settings a little. Use options with HEVC (x265) or AV1 for significantly smaller file sizes at the same level of quality. If you’re leaning towards x265, an Nvidia card using the NVENC option is gonna be significantly faster.
          • Handbrake has a preview feature which outputs a 30 second segment at the given settings. Very useful if you wanna tune the quality/file size.

          Bonus: Look into Jellyfin for a streaming service like interface

        • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I should try Handbrake. I’ve been using MakeMKV and Movavi. If you can rip and convert in Handbrake all at once, that would save me a bunch of time.