Fair point. :)

The only reason I mentioned this is I have multiple family members who have by this point learned how to stream via bittorrent and how to use rutracker.

Why not just use something like rutracker.org ?

All the netflix releases are on there and vast majority of them can be streamed via bit torrent. Just select language defaults in your media player and you’re good to go.

Ah, Ok!

Thanks for the clarification!

And what if you don’t want to use crypto?

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B. Clients can directly play the media without any need for realtime transcoding. I could 4K transcoding being challenging for older Raspberry Pi SBCs.

I’ve been using DietPi on my SBC home servers (NAS, media service, pi-hope, etc.) since 2017 or so.

It’s an excellent distro for headless operation and makes CLI easy to use for somewhat casual users.

When I read “open shell account server” I thought this meant anyone can get access programmatically. This sounded like a disaster.

But turns out, at least with the respect to this NetBSD specific offer, you have to send out an application.

Was this posted in self-hosted because the term is vaguely associated with the concept of getting pregnant?

I already mentioned that I do use Mastadon. You’re preaching to the choir.

Yes, I do.

My national background and the current situation in my country makes Twitter an important source of information (I follow local news sites as well).

I used the gaming as an example as a more neutral topic of conversation.

I see where you are coming from (even if you are being a bit glib), but the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow.

And trust me, my hate for Musk is way more than you can imagine. This is serious stuff.

I actually did try that twice (in a context where they would have more motivation than a typical dev/studio), no luck.

Don’t get me wrong, I do think we have to move of corporate social networking systems. I started actively using Lemmy about two months ago and I am enjoying it. However, we do have to be realistic about the state of the market.

For certain content there really is no alternative. One example would be gaming, almost no studios/developers are on Mastadon.

I do have a gaming-focused Mastadon account and I do use it, but it’s not really comparable.

I had a pretty decent self-hosted setup that was working locally. The whole project failed because I couldn’t set up a reverse proxy with nginx.

I am no pro, very far from it, but I am also somewhat Ok with linux and technical research. I just couldn’t get nginx and reverse proxies working and it wasn’t clear where to ask for help.