People with access to my Jellyfin: Last login: 10 months ago
When a friend starts watching a movie you love on Plex but stops 30 minutes in
Submitted 23 hours ago by 
RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 17 hours ago emrsmsrli@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
For some reason my friends love to pay for 628 different streaming services.
mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
In my experience, all it takes is one instance where a stream buffers or needs to transcode down to a lower quality. There are a lot of variables between your home server and someone else’s smart tv or set top box. Streaming services are really good at accounting for most of that and making it work reliably. I am sure most of our media servers are way less reliable, especially outside the home.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I have a friend group that loves dumb American shows playing as background noise, think My Big Fat Gypsies Wedding and Swamp People. It’s hard to easily find all the seasons for them, so my jellyfin instance is a perfect place for them to live 😄
micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
I can’t get any of my friends to use my jellyfin instance. They login once, look around, and then go back to complaining about streaming prices
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Have you asked them why they don’t use it? It may be something as simple as missing content, or it might be the UI they don’t like.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
My son is an avid watcher of my jellyfin, and that’s more than enough for me to feel it’s worth all the effort I’ve put in it. He even asks me sometimes to add this show or that movie and I freaking love it.
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
when they watch an entire movie in 2mbit 720p from a 4K HDR source and you know they have a proper TV and a shield pro.
wheezy@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Nah. Friend was doing some “Plex and Chill” and it worked out well for them.
fartographer@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I keep thinking about adding my own custom intros that are just free awkward stock videos or smoke effects with fart sounds. But I’m worried that’ll make fewer people watch.
LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
I hope I have never done this to anyone 🥺
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Don’t spy on your users. Sure, you’ll happen to see something once in awhile or when troubleshooting, but don’t go looking. It’s bad for you and for them.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
I don’t know why people are downvoting you. I stopped using my friend’s server when I realized he was watching everything we were doing. Really weirded me out.
Watching what my friends and family do is 90% of the payment I get for doing all this shit. I like to see that they are enjoying all the work I put into it. Its not like I am selling their usage to fucking advertisers or something.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
And they know you are watching them?
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
I also provide this type of thing for friends and family for free (because I love them), and because payment would make me feel obligated beyond what I feel like doing. It sounds like you’ve made them aware, which is good. I also tell my friends that I can see what they watch, but that I don’t. You do you, but your meme suggested something unhealthy to me.
I mostly check if my SIL is watching anything before rebooting & updating. Otherwise my wife will stick her head in two minutes later to ask if jellyfin is down.