Darkassassin07

But still far to much of a hassle for the general public. Hell, half the people I know refuse to figure out a regular e-transfer/cash app. There's no way they'll even consider bitcoin; or really any other currency.

They can revoke Starlinks license to operate within the country; then issue arrest warrants for its operators.

The US has an extradition treaty with Brazil.

Supposedly Starlink is maintaining service for existing accounts, even if they can't bill them ATM.

Somehow I don't think that'll last all that long.

I work warehousing; no IT background, I just like to tinker with whatever. Have since I started breathing.

I was a fairly casual pirate, grabbing movies/shows I couldn't find elsewhere (or just couldn't afford). Got into Plex/Emby for my first real exploration into self-hosting (if you don't count SRCDS and/or Minecraft Server at like 13yo); and expanded my knowledge from there. Reverse Proxys, the 'arrs', DNS, Docker, VPNs, etc.

Now a days, I've got 20+ services that I mostly access via a VPN I host, and I'm always interested in messing with new things :)

they closed their local branch

That was due to threats of arrest for not paying these fines, that were issued for refusing to silence critics.

I was trying to skip past all those middle steps and get to the root of the issue. What started it all.

that’s what you think is wrong with Twitter

?

What is 'that' exactly...?

I've said nothing about what's wrong with twitter. I've said I agree with refusing to silence political opposition for those in power, at least in principle. I've also, at least tried, to be pretty clear I'm likely missing some contex; so that may be a bit of a misinterpretation of the situation.

~~As far as I understand this is a right-wing authoritarian gov silencing left-wing opponent's.~~

~~Am i mistaken?~~

/pre-post edit: Yes, yes I am.

That certainly throws out any bit of sympathy I may of had... Though I still think they made the right decision to refuse to comply.

¯\(-_-)/¯ oh well.

I'm kind of on the fence with this one.

As much as I dislike Twitter/X and it's owner; their 'crime' is refusing to silence the political opponents of those currently in power, then further refusing to pay fines for that decision.... Decisions, at least in principle, I agree with.

That said: I haven't actually seen the content that's at the center of this dispute; the posts of those political opponents. I'm also not very familiar with Brazils politics, so perhaps there's context I'm missing.

I don't have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself

That's kind of the root of the issue imo; having a subscription based model doesn't really work with open source as the project just gets forked every release to remove the subscription.

This leaves Emby with little option but to go closed source if they want income through subscriptions.

So, I'm not sure I understand what you mean with 'the way they went about it'. Is it the subscription you had an issue with, or the fact that they were no longer open source? What would you have done differently?

And, if you don't mind me asking: Had you supported (paid) Embys developers prior to them shifting to closed source + 'Emby Premiere'?

To be clear, I'm not trying to be argumentative or divisive; I'm just trying to understand the animosity towards Emby and why it's so often left out of the conversation, so to speak. It's something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Thanks for taking the time to chat about this.

I'm curious to know why you think/feel that way.

I found/started using personal streaming solutions around 8 years ago; so post-Emby/MediaBrowser split into Jellyfin.

While I started with Plex, I very quickly came to despise their always online/centralized authentication system and moved to Emby as the only alternative I'd seen/heard of at the time. From there I learned of Jellyfin and (at least some of) it's origins; though I've had 0 reason/need/desire to actually install Jellyfin as Emby works fantastically.

I've been really quite happy with Emby; particularly with their stance of not tracking/collecting userdata and maintaining Emby as a private company focused on their customers instead of investors/partners. I understand some people don't like the Premiere licensing model they use; but I think it's a good way for the developers to ensure stable income for their work; and TBH, especially with the lifetime purchase option, I think it's undervalued. Unfortunately that model is not compatible with opensource (as users just fork it to remove the paywall), which is why Jellyfin exists from what I understand.

You can always use the older, well established, actively developed, and stable project that Jellyfin is built from; Emby. (Jellyfin is literally Embys code from 10+ years ago)