- unknowing8343 ( @unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ) 137•1 year ago
For a second I thought they were launching their federated lemmy/kbin instance. With different communities, like “support”, “bugs”, “news”…
Would have been freaking awesome and a great use case for Lemmy and federarion.
Good for them anyway.
- techno156 ( @techno156@kbin.social ) 60•1 year ago
At the same time, it might not fit them. Lemmy is a link aggregator, which seems like extra functionality that they don’t really need, not when existing forum software will do what they need, while also being more stable/mature.
- unknowing8343 ( @unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ) 19•1 year ago
Not good enough of an excuse, IMO. Link aggregation is essentially a normal post with just a link to somewhere else, which you can totally do in any forum… and it is no bloat at all.
I believe the reasoning was more like “we don’t want to do any federation, because the barrier of having to create a new account will free us from trolls/bots/etc”.
- heady ( @heady@aggregation.cafe ) English9•1 year ago
They made their announcement on their own site, they are the somewhere else, and the link has found it’s way here so what’s the problem?
We call websites like this one link aggregators but they are just platforms, it’s the users who are the aggregators collecting the links that we are interested in. We don’t need a system of top down promotion and don’t need to have our platforms serve those who want to promote. Likewise projects like Jellyfin don’t owe us a presence and this post itself proves they don’t need one. The idea that everyone must maintain a brand identity and that our social media should be polluted with advertising is something that the fediverse has and I hope will continue to stand against.
- unknowing8343 ( @unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ) English5•1 year ago
Nah, dude, chill, 😅.
They just built a nice independent forum, but I would have liked to be able to participate in their forum with this account (federation) instead of having to create a new account.
That’s it, this is not going to keep me awake at night, in fact, I am happy they are finding independence from Reddit. The world keeps turning, have a nice week!
- sillypuddy ( @sillypuddy@mander.xyz ) English1•1 year ago
I wonder if Lemmy could do single sign-on support like how you can log in some places with your Google or Facebook account.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) English1•1 year ago
Yeah, definitely. Lemmy could implement an OpenID identity provider, then accounts could be used to log in to anything that supports OpenID Connect.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
I believe the reasoning was more like “we don’t want to do any federation, because the barrier of having to create a new account will free us from trolls/bots/etc”.
Agreed. And they don’t really benefit from the larger Reddit/fediverse.
And who knows what sites businesses block (not sure how that works with Lemmy).
- Dusty ( @Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com ) 11•1 year ago
Add in the fact they’d end up having to defederate a lot of instances due to trolls and whatnot, and it’s much better that they run it on their own site. It’s much better from a moderation viewpoint for them. I know people will be all upset here, but it’s honestly for the best.
- SkyNTP ( @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
AskHistorians, AkScience, AMA, AskReddit, Ask*, and the myriad of semi-official support subreddits for services, games, eyc. all would like to disagree that Reddit/Lemmy is a link aggregator exclusively.
- Hexorg ( @Hexorg@beehaw.org ) 20•1 year ago
The tree-like comment structure is just overall better for large-crowd engagement. Phpbb forum type is just going to get flooded with many posts and hard to follow when thousands answer
- techno156 ( @techno156@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
I’m not sure that the Jellyfin community is that big or active enough that that will be much of an issue at all. Looking at their sub, the highest rated posts are under 1k, so number of people active on the sub is probably somewhere between 100k - 1M.
Your average post maybe has about 10 - 20 people interacting with it at most. Expecting thousands seems… optimistic, especially when the forum numbers puts them at under 300 people.
- Hedup ( @Hedup@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
I hope mods can restrict the types of content users can post in communities in fututure.
- QHC ( @QHC@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Of course they can, what else would moderators be doing? Not entirely sure how this is even a question…
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
Maybe they mean automated moderation tools that will just do that?
- Morphit ( @Morphit@feddit.uk ) 6•1 year ago
I think they mean turning off the ability to submit non-text posts entirely. It’s much better that a user can’t do something that isn’t allowed than to have a bot fix up the situation after the fact.
- Bowen ( @Bowen@beehaw.org ) 30•1 year ago
The return of phpbb, who had that on their 2023 bingo card?
- snarfvsmaximvs ( @snarfvsmaximvs@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
They evaluated it and decided against it in favor of MyBB.
- Neopolitan ( @neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space ) English2•1 year ago
I’m a little surprised they didn’t pick Discourse.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) English3•1 year ago
I think Flarum and NodeBB are better that Discourse. Discourse is a Ruby app which makes it a pain to deploy.
I used to be a developer on SMF, but these days I see the older forum systems like phpBB, SMF, etc. as “previous generation”.
- Dusty ( @Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com ) 76•1 year ago
This is great, I’m honestly glad they have their own forum on their own page as opposed to something like Discord.
I know people will be disappointed it’s not on lemmy or similar, but it’s for the best to be honest. Since it’s a product, it’s much easier to have something they fully control and can have ownership over (including who and what can be posted there). It’s a great decision by them.
- NightOwl ( @NightOwl@lemmy.one ) 35•1 year ago
As much time passes I still find forums really easy to navigate through with how categorized everything is, and I do like activity bumping up threads. Although searching through like 100+ page long threads on like xda can be a pain. Still so much better than discord for being a source of information.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 5•1 year ago
Although searching through like 100+ page long threads on like xda can be a pain.
Until recently, one of the official ways to get support for the email app I use (FairEmail) was to post in a 1,200-page XDA Developers thread containing 24,000 posts. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1203
- uyuu ( @uyuu@lemmy.4d2.org ) 4•1 year ago
I’m a big proponent of people reading the whole thread before making a new post in forums, but in this case. I’m not so sure anymore lol.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 3•1 year ago
hahaha that one thread is larger than some entire forums I’ve moderated in the past.
- Wrrzag ( @Wrrzag@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Still so much better than discord for being a source of information.
Discord is atrocious as an info repository. It’s useful to chat and to have a way to search what’s been said, but it’s horrible having to search there for that one useful message amidst all the other replies if you haven’t participated. And the nature of a chat makes searching blindly very time consuming.
- 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚 ( @erre@feddit.win ) 71•1 year ago
I welcome the return of forums. What a simpler time.
- HTTP_404_NotFound ( @xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ) 48•1 year ago
I don’t-
I don’t miss having to register accounts on each one, answer a bunch of questions, give a birthday, give an email, do a capta… etc…
Just for that forum to popup on haveibeenpwned.com a few months later.
Knock on wood, password managers are a thing now, and its easy to give each forum a very unique password. But- still. Don’t really miss those.
- fuzzyspudkiss ( @fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social ) 18•1 year ago
Thank you! I feel like I’m the only person who lived through that time. Having everything on one site is way simpler, reddit sucks but that doesn’t mean the concept does.
I do not miss having to sign up for a specific forum, wait for the email, no email, check spam folder, no email, 15 mins later email shows up in spam, go to post, “sorry you can’t make a post without interacting with at least 5 other posts”, post random shit on 5 other posts, finally get to post, "this question has been answered. Post archived "
- HTTP_404_NotFound ( @xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ) 7•1 year ago
Another factor, is…
Well, Especially for users in large communities, or those with lots of interests, they will end up on LOTS of forums.
And, that turns into either, a lot of notifications, or a lot of ignored interactions due to the number of notifications.
The last thing people don’t seem to remember, half of the damn forums wanting to put damn ads everywhere.
- Fylkir ( @Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago
I still see a legacy of that when a forum for game modding requires you create an account to download.
- wet_lettuce ( @wet_lettuce@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
I guess I did forums a little differently. I had 2 main forums where I posted a lot and then a handful I would peruse occasionally. If you had a good forum, there would be a very ‘reddit-like’ feel because they’d have general discussion, fitness, gaming, etc.
One of the things I liked about forums back in the day is that, while they didn’t have the scale of Reddit, the engagement and interactions seemed better. You got to know posters.
I couldn’t tell you another redditor’s username.
- Lost_Wanderer ( @Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
That’s a take. For sure.
- jmp242 ( @jmp242@sopuli.xyz ) 4•1 year ago
Password managers have been a thing for like 20 years?
- Dusty ( @Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com ) 1•1 year ago
And services like firefox relay so yo don’t have to give up your own email addres and can easily turn it off if it ends up on a spam list. For a service like Jellyfin a forum is the best way to go.
- HTTP_404_NotFound ( @xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ) 1•1 year ago
Not quite- I’d say they really became popular / usable around 10-15 years ago. In the early 2000s, people either used internet explorer, or opera.
Opera /chrome didn’t support extensions until 2009.
NOT- saying they didn’t exist, but, the idea of a browser-integrated password manager wasn’t a huge thing back then, I don’t believe.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 1•1 year ago
Roboform was originally released in 2000. It’s the oldest password manager I can think of.
Internet Explorer supported extensions for a long time (at least since IE5, maybe even IE3 or 4), and Firefox did too.
- jmp242 ( @jmp242@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year ago
I don’t remember the year but I was using roboform quite some time ago, and keepass existed and I actually used something for years before that. Easily in like 2004. It doesn’t have to (and I think better if it doesn’t) plug into the browser. They used keyboards and tabs to input the info.
- vvv ( @vvv@programming.dev ) 3•1 year ago
Not only do we have password managers now, we also have OIDC. I can see a situation where a service pops up with no offering other than identity management/verification, and forum-like software can accept log-ins from that service.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) English3•1 year ago
Yeah but that’s the old way. Today you’d sign in with one of the big accounts, or, even better, a passkey that seamlessly moves around with you.
- christophski ( @christophski@feddit.uk ) 15•1 year ago
I’m so excited for forums to come back, just need to make sure there is a great mobile app to handle them.
- hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈 ( @iamhazel@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year ago
It felt so much better to engage on forums. felt a bit slower and more intentional. And signatures, the signatures! Love their choice here.
- roombobcat ( @roombobcat@lemmy.roombob.cat ) 19•1 year ago
a indie game i support refuses to use a forum, only discord. i hate searching thru threads in discord when a forum would be easier.
i wish people wouldn’t shun the idea of a forum just because it’s a “old idea.” good on the jellyfin folks for doing this.
- hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈 ( @iamhazel@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Yep unpopular opinion I hate hate hate discord for anything but normal chat. The threads they added recently are neat and I hope they keep going in that direction.
- OnionFutures ( @OnionFutures@vlemmy.net ) 3•1 year ago
I hate Discord full stop, because it’s a centralised proprietary platform just like Reddit and is going to hit the exact same issues one day, and it’s going to be even harder to recover all the conversations that have gone on there.
- Moon ( @Moon@aiparadise.moe ) 5•1 year ago
Sadly this is very common for small game developers (and even large ones) to move entirely to Discord to avoid paying or managing a dedicated forum
- roombobcat ( @roombobcat@lemmy.roombob.cat ) 1•1 year ago
exactly. it’s not hard to install SMF or PHPBB on a small web server, however actually maintaining/managing a forum is a bit harder.
it’s easier to round up Discord moderators, but good luck finding anyone with forum moderation experience.
- termus ( @termus@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
I miss forums too. Discord has kind of taking over that role for my friends and I, but Discord makes it feel like you are posting something with everyone staring at you through a window. I hate that it notifies that you are actively typing.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 12•1 year ago
Discord sucks for what forums are good for. Forums are great for durable discussions that can be indexed, searched, discovered, and referenced. Discord? It’s only good at real time conversations
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
I don’t get the popularity of discord. You have to wade through so much casual conversation to find anything of value.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
It’s great for the things it does well, but then people get locked into a “when you have a nice hammer, every problem looks like a nail” mindset
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Discord sucks for what forums are good for. Forums are great for durable discussions that can be indexed, searched, discovered, and referenced. Discord? It’s only good at real time conversations
- haruki ( @h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev ) 3•1 year ago
And my questions got lost in a flood of messages… Even Discord now has to implement forums feature to prevent this problem.
- Alkalyon ( @Alkalyon@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Not in this day and age where me and my grandma have our own.
There are so many, you can’t keep up to date with your hobbies unless you are willing to follow 50 platforms with 60 different UIs and community rules.
I prefer the aggregation of data like fediverse where we can follow topics and not platforms.
- Nullify9964 ( @Nullify9964@lemmy.ml ) 51•1 year ago
I’m sure Jellyfin considered the Fediverse but some projects like the idea of having more control of the community discussions they participate in so having a forum makes sense. I still think a Jellyfin community on Lemmy can thrive with an official forum in place.
- 🐝🇭🇪🅻🅻🇪🇧🅴🆁🇹🐝 ( @Hellebert@beehaw.org ) 36•1 year ago
This is probably true. Forum software is a lot more mature then Lemmy etc and probably a better overall option currently for a project like Jellyfin to operate. They just want something that works and provides the least amount of moderation overhead possible.
- Lost_Wanderer ( @Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org ) 26•1 year ago
The moderating tools on MyBB is worlds away and better than Lemmy/Kbin.
True but the downside is exposure and footfall. Subreddits work well as people can dip into them easily from elsewhere in Reddit, both new users and regular contributors can keep an eye from their feeds.
A forum is on it’s own and only people out looking specifically for the forum or who know about Jellyfin will go looking for it, and it won’t pop up in people’s feeds. The Internet used to be littered with forums, but social media is the very reason they fell out of fashion.
But users have also created a Jellyfin community on Lemmy: jellyfin@lemmy.ml
- Kichae ( @Kichae@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Yeah, but at the same time Reddit is kind of an awaful place for getting tech support for things like this. It’s great for general discussion, but as a mod you have no real power to do things like move support requests from “general” and into a space where it will be highly visible by those willing to lend support.
Forums are better for community management than link aggregators along every axis except for footfall.
- davidgtl ( @davidgtl@pleroma.davidgtl.me ) 2•1 year ago
@BananaTrifleViolin @Hellebert @c1b0 @Nullify9964 maybe ActivityPub plugins will come out for forums? Would be cool to be able to follow and comment on forums around the internet.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 13•1 year ago
Jellyfin is all about self hosting. I don’t see why they wouldn’t just create their own Lemmy instance if that was the concern. It wouldn’t need to be big if they limited the userbase
- techno156 ( @techno156@kbin.social ) 29•1 year ago
Lemmy is pretty immature, and probably doesn’t suit their needs compared to a forum.
They don’t really need a link aggregator, so using Lemmy there wouldn’t really make much sense.
The only thing that they might use Lemmy for is the community, but otherwise, it’s not a great fit for what they need.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 24•1 year ago
Yup, “when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Lemmy and the Fediverse are great, but they aren’t the end all, be all solution to online content.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Lemmy and KBin are cool and all, but VERY rough around the edges so I wouldn’t expect large projects or communities not directly related to then to adopt either. Keep in mind for most of these projects, they picked Reddit because the users were already there and the software was relatively polished. These are both things that many of us users are interested in improving, but that projects with communities aren’t going to want to use until theyre already more advances than they are right now
- plug_world ( @plug_world@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
I find the biggest problem with Lemmy and these federated apps is that search engine indexing kinda sucks right now. They get pushed so far down the bottom of the results, you only really see them when you search site:lemmy.ml or whatever.
I believe this was a good decision. Hopefully in the future search engine indexing will improve. Otherwise I can’t see Lemmy being as useful as Reddit.
- Moon ( @Moon@aiparadise.moe ) 3•1 year ago
It makes sense for fediverse instances to have very low SEO (search engine ranking) as the content is split up across many different websites and domains.
- Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
It’s also very annoying to crosslink content on the fediverse. So there is far fewer links between discussions. The network graph is way less interconnected, and that hurts search indexing.
- HawkMan ( @HawkMan@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
forums is all around an infinitely better solution for support and discussions on specific tech and interest. It’s also more searchable and less ephemeral. At least reddit and fediverse is better then ephemeral solutions like discord.
- plug_world ( @plug_world@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
Totally agree, it pains me to see communities move to Discord.
- Rumblestiltskin ( @Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ca ) 39•1 year ago
I thought this was an announcement they were moving to the Fediverse.
- marco ( @marco@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
Seriously, how about they stand up a lemmy instance? That way peeps could follow their forums without having to travel to a proprietary place.
- brie ( @brie@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
According to the footer they’re running MyBB so although it is more centralised, I wouldn’t call it proprietary.
What advantages would Lemmy have over the traditional style of forum for their use case?
- duncesplayed ( @duncesplayed@lemmy.one ) 9•1 year ago
Yeah it’s not the end of the world. It’s slightly disappointing that you have to create yet another account unnecessarily.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 6•1 year ago
You can log in to their forum with Discord, Github, Google, Reddit, Stack Exchange or Twitter accounts. It would be better for them to support logging in with any OpenID provider using OpenID Connect, but they do support some of the major ones at least (except for Facebook and Apple).
- reric88🧩 ( @reric88@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
The only real advantage I can see is they would be another mass of users on the fediverse, which is what we want I suppose. I mean I do want it to be populated, and if more people migrate, it ensures survival of their community. I don’t like how we have all scattered to the wind, but it’s their choice where to go
- gr3yspace ( @gr3yspace@lemmy.onlylans.io ) 11•1 year ago
Agreed. Lowkey disappointed.
- fsniper ( @fsniper@kbin.social ) 35•1 year ago
Strange they don’t even mention Fediverse. It just felt too dated.
- grte ( @grte@lemmy.ca ) 16•1 year ago
I can understand wanting to bring your discussion hub in house to avoid something like what’s happened. But bringing it into essentially an old school phpBB forum is certainly, ah, a choice.
- Dusty ( @Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com ) 9•1 year ago
There is nothing wrong with forums, they’ve existed (and continue to exist) for decades. They are a great way to have information easily searchable, as well as easily post and contribute.
Just because they aren’t carded like twitter or lemmy doesn’t mean they are dated. Everything has it’s place and every tool has a job. In this case, that place is a forum and the tool is phBB. Also, I wouldn’t call it “old school” as the most recent update is from May 21, 2023.
Not everything has to be federated, and nothing is stopping anyone from creating an instance for Jellyfin ( !jellyfin@lemmy.ml ) . But for the official instance, having it hosted by them, on their hardware, that they control, it’s a great choice to use a forum.
- tinselpar ( @tinselpar@feddit.nl ) 8•1 year ago
It could be argued that web forums were an answer to older system that came before it and the problems with them. Systems like Usenet and Fidonet BBS’s were federated system, and web forums are actually newer than that.
- DodoTheDev ( @DodoTheDev@beehaw.org ) 27•1 year ago
Now all they need to do is move away from twitter.
- Rakn ( @Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 22•1 year ago
Kinda sad they didn’t settle for something like Lemmy, but at the same time happy that they realize the value of a forum and didn’t just move to Discord.
- blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
I can see the argument in favour of classic forums. Keeping everything chronological can help for certain kinds of discussion, and it’s easier to sort content by subforums in a way that doesn’t scale well with Lemmy. You’d need to create a lot of different communities to keep it all separated, which is messy.
The biggest thing forums lack is multi-threaded discussions. That said, simple chronological helps people at the bottom of the thread get assistance since it doesn’t disappear into the web of conversation, so this might also be an advantage of single-threaded forums.
Also, voting gamifies the whole experience, so people are reluctant to post in older threads since they won’t get “points”.
Finally, threads on Lemmy also don’t get bumped, so old content effectively dies. This sucks for troubleshooting since people very frequently have the exact same problem many years apart.
I feel like “release” and “discussion” threads would probably benefit from Lemmy’s structure to allow for deeper engagement in sub-conversations, but the core of their use is single-topic requests and, frankly, forums are better at that.
- rm_dash_r_star ( @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
The advantage I see with the Lemmy approach over Discord is comment longevity. At Discord your comment has little time before it falls off the radar. It’s longer with Twitter, but still short. At Lemmy you get a reasonable trade-off for comment longevity and convenience. On a phpBB style forum comment longevity can be quite long, but you have to go to a dedicated site with it’s own address which lacks convenience.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Yeah but really it makes more sense for an official forum. I kind of miss the days before reddit, when everything had their own private forum. The good ones were great.
- rm_dash_r_star ( @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
For sure, before these modern forums took over the scene, dedicated forums like phpBB were all I used. Though there is definitely something to like about Lemmy and the fediverse. Just super convenient. You can talk about everything in one place. The longer exposure of comments with the old style was nice, but I can trade that off willingly enough.
As far as dedicated official forums, I don’t know. Think I’d still rather have access to them here. The Fediverse just makes a lot of sense serving as a centralized communications hub. Kind of reminds me of Usenet back in the early internet days, but a lot better. Usenet could be pretty kludgey.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
I dunno, whynotboth.jpg is kind of my catchphrase. I think we could have high quality niche forums, but also link aggregation sites with meta commentary.
Some subs had existing fourms that had some loose affiliation so I’ve saw some migrate that way, but it is weird to make a new fourm instead of something Federated, but if it works for them so be it.
- lixus98 ( @lixus98@kbin.social ) 20•1 year ago
Even tho they didn’t move to the fediverse, I’m glad they left reddit.
- frozengriever ( @frozengriever@beehaw.org ) 19•1 year ago
Please note they also have a Mastodon account where they’ve made the same announcement:
https://mastodon.online/@jellyfin/110568058365759513
Let’s support the Fediverse or FOSS alternatives when we can.
right, i didn’t know they were in Mastodon
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 17•1 year ago
TIL about Jellyfin. Is it like Plex? Better? I assume it’s solid since everyone knows about it?
- Crow of Minerva ( @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it ) 34•1 year ago
It’s plex but open source and without any sort of subscription. I have been using it for a couple of years and never had a problem
- charred ( @charred@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
i never heard of it and have been using plex for years. i love that its open source. definitely checking it out. plex has been driving me nuts with all the extra crap theyve been adding. i just want my media
- b_mcschmee ( @b_mcschmee@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Does it work outside of the home network as well as plex does? Also, do you think it is worth switching if I already bought the lifetime plex pass?
- Crow of Minerva ( @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it ) 2•1 year ago
It should work, but I use tailscale so I can’t personally vouch for it. I don’t think it differs that much from plex tho, so if you are fine with it and you have already the pass, you aren’t losing out anything major
- pgetsos ( @pgetsos@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Imho, it is better. Being free is an extra bonus
- encode8062 ( @encode8062@lemmy.one ) 5•1 year ago
Way better!
- freeskier ( @freeskier@centennialstate.social ) 5•1 year ago
It’s a Plex alternative, I don’t know about better. IIRC it’s a fork of Emby. I try both (Emby and Jellyfin) usually a couple times a year, but there’s always something that gives me issue and I just stay with Plex.
Also, seems kind of silly, but the name is just dumb. Neither my wife or I want to audibly say “let’s watch something on Jellyfin”.
- Midas ( @midas@ymmel.nl ) 4•1 year ago
It’s great software but for me it’s missing at least 1 must-have feature, being intro detection & skipping.
If you want to get into them you can run them both on the same library and just compare which you like best
- Kuro ( @Kuro@sha1.nl ) 3•1 year ago
There is a plugin you can install for that, but it is a bit finicky:
- thisfro ( @thisfro@slrpnk.net ) 2•1 year ago
Like plex yes, better, well it depends. But I do use it for myself instead of plex
- narc0tic_bird ( @narc0tic_bird@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
I’d actually love if companies/products/software went back to forums and other specialized means to get support. I hate when they refer to Reddit or worse, Discord.
- judog24 ( @judog24@cheddarcrackers.club ) 15•1 year ago
As long as the forums are easily searchable then this is a good move. It looks like the subreddit is in read-only mode so we haven’t lost any knowledge yet. That data should be preserved elsewhere, just in case the subreddit becomes unviewable.
- Andreas ( @Andreas@feddit.dk ) 14•1 year ago
It’s great that they’re going back to traditional, self-hosted forums instead of corporate social media for support and discussions, but damn, I don’t miss having to manage hundreds of accounts with unique logins for each forum. I understand that they want more control over forum moderation and the Fediverse’s “anyone can post there” system makes it troublesome. It would be great if there was more widespread adoption of decentralized, “one login to access everything” systems.
- pe1uca ( @pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev ) 7•1 year ago
Since I’m now using a password manager I’ve been having less issue with creating as many accounts as needed.
But I do agree it’d be great to have a single sign on.- Dusty ( @Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com ) 4•1 year ago
If you are looking for a little bit of “extra” to go with your password manager, check out firefox relay. You can create emails that forward to your real email without exposing it. They allow you to block emails entirely, or just promotions. Their paid option is like $12/year (USD) and allows unlimited masks, and allowing you to create your own relay subdomain (like (whatever I decide)@dusty.mozmail.com). It’s definitely worth the relatively tiny charge for the paid version.
There is also a relay service with Cloudflare but I’ve not tried it out yet. But having an email like 0tK8h384jkcxas@mozmail.com saved to my password manager is no big deal.
- pe1uca ( @pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev ) 2•1 year ago
Yeah, I use anonaddy
- Dusty ( @Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com ) 1•1 year ago
I’ve not heard of that before, I’ll have to check it out. Cheers
- jmp242 ( @jmp242@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 year ago
But then you have the same centralization issue - and it’s even worse, if the central authority has a fit for some reason about you, now you’re locked out of many completely unrelated sites.
- OnionFutures ( @OnionFutures@vlemmy.net ) 2•1 year ago
You mean the password manager as the central authority? You can self host a password manager using, eg, Vaultwarden.
Even if you use a trusted, paid commercial service, I think the risk of that happening is lower than on Reddit. Their business model is simpler and more transparent. They want to keep you as a customer so you will keep paying them. And there is less opportunity for them to ban you for political reasons when you’re not expressing yourself on their platform.
- jmp242 ( @jmp242@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
Not a password manager. I mean something like SAML or oAuth. Think the sign in with Google…
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English4•1 year ago
Federated logins are a thing! The challenge is finding one that’s open and privacy-friendly. Unfortunately the widest-used ones come from entities like Google or Facebook with a marked interest in preying on user data. Mozilla used to maintain a federated system (Persona) but they discontinued it. I know Ubuntu offers one for all their services (bug trackers, forums etc.) but not sure if it’s open to third party systems. Perhaps there are others worth using.
Alternatively, you can aggregate all your logins in one place across devices and browsers. Firefox Accounts are a very simple method of doing this (presuming you use Firefox everywhere), and you can choose to only sync logins rather than bookmarks, plugins etc. And of course there are other dedicated password managers, with or without online sync, open or closed source, self-hosted or private hosted etc.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
“one login to access everything” systems.
Sign in with Google, Facebook. But fucked if I’m using that.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 1•1 year ago
Self-hosting your own OpenID identity provider is a good solution, but not many sites let you type your own OpenID URL to log in any more :(
- demvoter ( @demvoter@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
And they announce it on Twitter? 🙄
- Gleaming0167 ( @Gleaming0167@kbin.social ) 23•1 year ago
They announced it on their website. Why OP chose to link the tweet instead is beyond me.
The irony in this is massive. It’s so weird to see that you are the only one pointing it out.
- Moon ( @Moon@aiparadise.moe ) 3•1 year ago
They also announced it on their Mastodon, I guess OP didn’t realize they had one.
Fair enough I guess. Though them having Twitter at all is still a bit ironic…