The whole point of this issue with Pixelfed is that none of what you describe is required.

Find any follower of a Fediverse account of any kind (Target Account) that’s on a Pixelfed server. Go to that Pixelfed server, view “private” posts from Target Account there.

No need to set up a server, or get sent anything. Granted, even without this flaw ActivityPub is not the way to go for anything private.

Fixed title: “HP found a way to test out saving costs on licensing.”

I may have something to read up on.

I used this: https://github.com/arabcoders/watchstate

It works, really, really well. You just connect it to the servers, and it syncs them by user. You can even let it run regularly while you are in your transition phase as a docker container right next to Plex and Jellyfin.

Mine’s even a bit more advanced, as I used samba-domain to set up an LDAP active directory for my fam, then the above to sync the Plex users to those users in Jellyfin, and it still worked great.

Edit: The WebUI is also pretty intuitive, but I did have to run it twice for my user the first time for it to get 100% in sync. Everything was fine after that.

@BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml

This is why I think ActivityPub needs DIDs for identity management like Bluesky has with AT-Proto, but in a true, user owned way: https://fedid.me/

Give AP the benefits of AT, without Bluesky involved.

Realistically they would get a bailout “for the consumer”.

More likely than central hosting would be some of the same people enabling faster modes via software hacks currently making them run offline.

Open an issue? Devs are pretty responsive.

My current server runs 40ish docker containers and has 24TB of disk space in a ZFS array.

It is a 11 year old Intel chip and mobo that was my desktop once upon a time. I have been thinking about updating it simply because of power draw, but it works just fine.

I did add in PCI risor boards to get PCI 3.0 NVME drives in there.

It’s pretty common practice to upgrade your computer and turn your old one into a server. Then continue that cycle every upgrade.

The docs are super unclear, and written for those not familiar with ActivityPub.

In future, we hope to develop a deeper integration between your social web profile and followers <> and your public website and registered members. To start with, though, they operate independently from one another.

Your social web profile and followers are separate to the rest of your site and memberships, so you can think of it as a new, additional distribution channel.

Emphasis mine. I think the setup is basically federating links in Mastodon style. So if you have a post available as a subscription, it will prompt a login after clicking through.

If you like FOSS, I’d recommend giving Thunder a try: https://thunderapp.dev/

And @beanstalk@lemm.ee, welcome. Others have recommended some useful communities, but as you join the Fediverse, which is distributed across many servers, a useful way to find new communities you like is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

There are also an absolute ton of free and open source app choices. I personally prefer Thunder for the customizable options, but everyone has their preferences.

Enjoy exploring!

For me, the pinned issue keeps me from using it: https://github.com/vogler/free-games-claimer/issues/183

And for GOG you can have something refresh a link daily and it grabs whatever is there.

Tabs set at 1 space.

Well, we had one stack. There was no variety, it was that he didn’t want to put it on JDs.

And some places have interesting things, but unfortunately not many. I’m working on data provenance protocols and distributed identity management using ActivityPub at the moment, and I would consider that very interesting, but super-boring to others.

Had an old boss that wouldn’t put our stack in JDs because he felt any truly good programmer could pick it up. I mean, true, but it’s not efficient hiring, or effecient business practice.

Wait till you hear about SearXNG or SxncD

I just made the switch for a few reasons.

For background, I was a Lifetime Plex Pass user since it launched, created the POC exploit for token theft (a couple of months before they implemented SSL), and built a clustering/sync application (a few months before they released sync, patterns much?).

I did not think Jellyfin was up to task a few years ago. It is now. All the missing features like themed visuals and audio, chapters, thumbnails on seek, all exist now.

Why I switched:

• API: I have scripts that do different things with different media and they were super easy to recreate with the API. An example would be moving ytdlp videos from my Youtube Watch Later folder to a deletion folder if they’ve been watched.
• LDAP: I now have user control via my Samba AD.
• Privacy: I never wanted my media list stored with a third party to begin with.
• Plugins: I have a library I tag with filenames, like ==Tag--Tag==filename.ext. It took me a half day to make a Jellyfin plugin that converts these to Genres. It was a nightmare of DB hacking to do it in Plex. Not to mention there are waaaay more existing plugins that are supported. Jellyfin is where this happens now, not Plex.
• Fine grain control: Transcoding settings, bandwidth settings, etc are are open and transparent.

Whew, this is why I pin on sha256. I fear for the latest crowd.

Edit: At least it seems updating the container doesn’t break things:

Replacing any v5 image (2024.07.0 and earlier) with a v6 image will result in updated configuration files. These changes are irreversible.

Thanks! That’s 10% of one of 16 threads right after it starts, so not really worried. I will take a look at btm, though, assuming it will also do IO.