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I can’t remember which ones they were now - it’s been years. I just remember laughing at how unrelated most were.

Whatever it was felt automated. It was very shortly after and all happened at once. I doubt any human looked at it.

I remember people talking about the bots at the time.

Once, years ago after a bad school shooting, I went to the conservative subreddit to argue with them about gun control (specifically improper storage and liability) because I was so bothered by the shooting and was feeling impassioned.

Didn’t get banned by the conservatives for that, but I got auto-banned from a whole list of unrelated subreddits for even speaking to them. What kind of mean-girls nonsense is that? It was like I was being ostracized for briefly sitting at the wrong lunch table.

In Phoenix of all places?! That’s just cruel.

Oh my god, you mean I didn’t have to do all this manually? I’ve spent so much troubleshooting time fixing file names.

I’m not confident enough in my knowledge to ever open up my server externally, even after reading some methods that are allegedly safe (or relatively safe). I’d just rather not take the risk of me misunderstanding something or failing to keep current with vulnerabilities.

I suppose I see the appeal if Plex handles that without hassle, but man… not for $750. Lol

Wow, this is so much good info. Thank you

No, not yet. I took forever to manually rip what I have, which was a lot, and I’m still working my way through boxes of music (which I’m also hosting on Jellyfin). I’ll figure out that step next.

I didn’t get into self-hosting until recently, and people recommended Jellyfin, so I don’t even know what I’m missing with Plex, if anything. It feels like Jellyfin does everything I need.

That’s long-term thinking. I assume it’s like a ponzi scheme: everyone who puts money into something like this thinks they’ll cash out before the problems occur.

Why do I feel like the ones left holding the bag are going to be the taxpayers/residents somehow?

At least Mastodon is properly federated. The benefits of decentralization sort of make this a waste of money/resources, right?

I remember when this was happening to Lemmy all the time too.

So how does that work? Do you just have an AI listening throughout the session like a note-taker?

I truly think most people would be receptive to the idea if they could just hear about it. The big corporate sites have so many problems.

Our two biggest obstacles in my opinion: a) the “instances” setup is mildly confusing for new users. b) Once you get here, the predominant culture is pretty homogenous and, to put it politely, politically intense.

Nice. We definitely need stuff like this to get the message out there that alternatives exist.

In other words, they can’t distinguish bots vs humans for advertising revenue, so they’re going to sacrifice everyone’s anonymity and hope not enough people care.

These are people talking about gaming reddit on X.