I’m devastated! Holy fuck it’s the end of such a great resource. Is there any other plex share communities active at all?
Hopefully more people start using these subs 🥴
What happened? Was the subreddit banned?
It was “banned due to being used for spam” by reddit 4 days ago.
Just found out about Plex Sharing thanks to your post. sorry I have nothing to add but im also very interested in finding one such servers.
Well unfortunately it’s the worst time to find out about it haha
Are we not able to start the same Plex sharing here on Lemmy?
Already exists, not active at all. hence are for acting communities.
You gotta link, brah?
Community can’t grow if you don’t tell people where to go.
Just subscribed
Those are mirrors of the Reddit communities. At least the first two.
Lemmit.online is just a bot reposting from Reddit, I’d ignore those ones
Actually, that just makes me think that probably those communities should not be added on the LW instance? I remember the admins being quite cautious about piracy.
db0 seems a better home for them
So why not create one on a different instance then?
Go ahead.
I don’t have the interest/need for such a community. But I was just suggesting that as that would be the solution if someone is squatting on it on your local instance.
ELI5 what Plex Sharing is? Is it “stealing” of media files on unsecured PLEX servers? People freely offering of media hosted on Plex servers? And why Plex of all things anyway?
Edit: We ARE talking about the media server software, right?
Yeah it’s just folks too lazy or unable to figure out how to pirate on their own, so some entrepreneurial pirates choose to sell slots on their personal media servers.
I don’t get it.
Oh, people pay for that?
Curious what you don’t get? There’s always people will to make a quick buck even if it’s risky and there’s always lazy people who will pay money for convenience (hence why paid streaming is even a thing)
I don’t get why people would pay a stranger and compromise their local security to access material they are 100% able to access themselves.
@some_guy @BraBraBra @_ENTER @DarkThoughts @TornadoValley people are lazy, simple as that. Plex does a good job managing security though. It’s pretty secure. All validating via Plex servers. Personally, emby and Jellyfin shares are just as good. Stremio and cloudstream are the torrent equivalent to Plex media player
i get it. i run my own plex server @60tb and counting. i don’t give strangers access and i think anyone invested in consuming media should be able to set up the content locally or pay the creator. i don’t understand people who pay a shlub to run radarr and plex on a random server adminned my a stranger.
it’s idiots like OP that beg and demand free content in public spaces that end up spoiling it for the rest of us.
I admin a Plex server for my friends and family. My mom doesn’t know how to pirate stuff so I mailed her a roku with my Plex already set up.
People rent out access to their plex servers. Some hosted at home, others in paid server space. What media is on them is up to whoever manages it.
When did this happen?
Don’t they have a fallback like a Discord or even a Lemmy community? If they don’t that’s a pretty stupid move from them IMHO.
Did they ban a sub related to it, or more of the same bullshit by reckoning removing mods?
They banned literally all of the good subs.
Damn. They’re just trying to wreck shit
When looking through some reddit archives, I was able to find these for anyone looking to try one. The posts were from December 2022.
- streamez.site
- Standard and Premium plex shares available (HD and 4k streaming). Service Type: Plex Shares Server Connection: 1GbBit/s Server Locations: Europe Content offered: We offer around 32K movies and 11.8K TV shows 2K 4K Movies & growing everyday with request system in place to get the library filled with content everyone loves! Content Includes: Movies(4K and HD) TV Shows (4K and HD) Anime Kids Tv Kids Movies (4K and HD) Plex Share HD Library Access - No downloading - Request Lounge Access - Plex Pass Enabled 1 x HD concurrent stream (no transcode) - $10CAD 2 x HD Concurent stream (no transcode) - $14CAD 3 x HD Concurrent stream (no transcode) - $18CAD 4K Library Access - Content Downloading enabled - Request Lounge Access - Plex Pass Enabled 1 x 4k concurrent stream (transcoding enabled) - $15CAD 2 x 4k concurrent stream (transcoding enabled) - $20CAD 3 x 4k concurrent stream (transcoding enabled) - $25CAD
- dawplex.xyz
- Serving globally for some amazing connectivity wherever you’re located. Library * Movies: 54,200+ * 4K Movies 3,000*+ (inc DoVi)* * 4K TV Shows: 700*+* * TV Shows: 12,300+ * Kids TV Shows: 600+ * Sports PPV: 700+ * Sports TV: 60+ * Sports Leagues: 5,900+ * Anime: 1,300+ * Movies (Foreign): 3,100+ * TV Shows (Foreign): 1,100+ Pricing: * 1 Stream (HD Plan) - $4.99 * 1 Stream (HD + 4K Plan) - $6.99 * 2 Streams (HD Plan) - $7.99 * 2 Streams (HD + 4K Plan) - $9.99 * 3 Streams (HD Plan) - $10.99 * 3 Streams (HD + 4K Plan) - $12.99 * 4 Streams (HD Plan) - $13.99 * 4 Streams (HD + 4K Plan) - $15.99 * 72 Hour Trial - $1.00 TRIALS: * $1/72 hour trials * Includes all libraries with exception of 4K * 1 concurrent stream w/ 1 transcode * Servers located in Europe with excellent global connectivity * Integrated Everly CDN for automatic peering globally
- discord.com/invite/kxB2bPkCNJ
- Library : Movies: 33000+ TV Shows: 9000+ Kids tv shows : 700+ Anime :1300 + 4KMovies: 1400+ 4K TV Shows: 400+ Donation Plans $9.99/Monthly $99.99/Yearly (50% off used to be $200) $249.99/Lifetime (50% off used to be $500) Server location: USA Netherland Singapore Features: All movies are 1080p and up! 10 Gbps Fiber UL/DL USA/EU
- streamez.site
“@plexshares” exists but is empty.
I think a lot of folks moved to Debrid services, tbf.
I have some videos I might be interested in sharing on a Jellyfin server, as well as interest in viewing videos on someone else’s shared server. I have a question: What options do you have for hardening security-wise? I have the server hosted on a local machine and don’t wanna get pwned if I can help it.
I have my Plex server in docker container that automatically restarts with the latest image once a week. I believe most vulnerabilities will come from outdated software.
Then I have nginx reverse proxying in front, I’m sure there’s additional safeguards I could throw in there but my instance is private.
Reverse proxy is the typical advice, but I think they’re a huge pain in the ass to set up.
Check out Authelia. There are docker images with it and a proxy.
This helps but it still looks like a huge pain to me. Any time yml configuration is required, complexity always increases a lot.
Caddy in a docker container took me about 5 minutes to setup. Reverse proxying is a one-liner in Caddy
I think it was five minutes for you because you’re already well acquainted with the concepts and/or tool. These are some older instructions for setting up Caddy and it’s not just minutes of work for the average person. The certificate part alone would take more than five minutes, and HTTPS is a must for a smooth experience for users.
That’s for Caddy 1.1
In Caddy 2 and higher it handles the cert stuff automatically with Let’sEncrypt.
Actually, looking in that guide you linked, the change to add https is a very small change in the config file as well. Perhaps you mean doing port forwarding in the router or setting up a domain/DNS is difficult? But those parts have nothing to do with Caddy itself.
Try looking at an equivalent guide for its competitors Nginx or Traefik. They’re far more complex to get set up.
Okay this is neat, but still:
If you use any other domain name, Caddy will attempt to get a publicly-trusted certificate; make sure your DNS records point to your machine and that ports 80 and 443 are open to the public and directed toward Caddy.
First OP needs to configure his DNS service.
Then he needs to port forward 443 (if I’m reading the instructions correctly).
@plexshares
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@plexThis should be a reminder for all the remaining subreddits: Try to organize an alternative before Reddit brings down their ban hammer. Now that the sub is gone, how do you let the old users know where you gonna meet? Best is to have right now an active talk about a federated alternative where you can go to when spez is killing off your favorite subs. The Subs who do not have this talk, will only survive as long as reddit allows it. Save your community! Plan ahead or make the move today!
PM me if you want a UK based plex server, my guy also has US server capabilities but naturally, I can’t comment on it - if it’s anything like the UK one, it’s great!
It be nice if some private trackers offered a forum section, similar to invite section, that offered advertising these behind a certain rank.
I’m on one that is, behind a PT that you have to like apply and get into after a certain rank on the tracker.
Reddit has been shit, but let’s be honest. That sub was filled to the brim with illegal offers for money. Lawsuits waiting to happen.
lol @ complaining about services being removed in a piracy community
Make your own server, host it offline. You won’t have to rely on anyone else. That’s what the community is about at its core.
This is it, right here.
I don’t have the time or resources for that. If you can’t understand that it’s not something everyone is up for then you’re ignorant.
If you don’t have time or resources for that I’d suggest to check on Streamio or even Kodi with a Real Debrid account, you won’t need anything else.
I used to do that, but found it lacking. It only offers the most popular shows. Anything slightly niche or old is generally either not available or shit quality.
Well, you did it wrong, Real Debrid caches basically anything you would ever watch, old stuff should be fine, niche stuff maybe, I am not entirely sure, but be aware that niche or specific stuff is a pain in the ass to get.
To be honest I use both solutions, the aforementioned and Plex, but my server is filled with latin Spanish content like some cartoons from the 90s and further which it would be very hard to find in good solutions, like Real Debrid, but I’m pretty sure they are available on English.
No I fucking didn’t, lmao! How bizarre. Go try to find life(2007). You won’t. I have access to it and I ain’t paying shit. Go try to watch the entirety of 8otc does countdown. It’ll start getting wonky around s13. I have access to the entirety in correct order and I ain’t paying shit.
How about season 1 of the great british bake off? How about the entirety of the eric andre show? How about the gong show with micheal myers?
Seriously bro, I know my needs. Debrid is only good if you’re watching whatever’s on trending.
Well, I have found lots of links for those you mentioned, also some doesn’t seem that niche since it said they are on Amazon or HBO MAX, or at least that is what reports the WatchHub add-on for Stremio… Granted with Life (2007) some links appeared to be uncached, but that can be fixed if they have at least one seed.
I didn’t check all the episodes of all your examples ofc, only some firsts, middle and ending episodes, so yeah, the best way would be to you giving it a chance again I guess, but seems like you are doing totally fine with Plex Shares, and I’m glad, since this kind of not that popular media deserves to be seeded and hoarded.
The point is debrid can be patchy. I got a bit worked up lol, sorry. But yeah. Debrid is fine for most people, but for someone like who who consumes A LOT of media it does dry up when you get into the road less travelled. If plex shares dries up I will have to get into private trackers and invest in a vpn. But I have no idea how I’m going to make that set up user friendly for the rest of the family. It’s gonna be a nightmare.
“I have my needs but I’m not willing to do anything to meet them other than complain online that other people aren’t doing the legwork for me”
Goddamn when did this kind of entitlement become acceptable and even encouraged in the larger piracy community?
“Gee, where’s the honor among thieves? Entitlement in this community of people too good to pay for their content? How rare.”
I am meeting them champ ;) I was explaining why debrid isn’t a suitable alternative. Perhaps your issue is you just have terrible reading comprehension?
For some reason you are hellbent on seeing some kind entitlement or negative angle to this, but I suppose we all get a bit curmudgeony with age. Perhaps that explain your reading comprehension too. Or maybe you’re a bit bitter because I called you ignorant, hmm? Chin up lil guy.
Just cracks me up when normies think that any of these things actually has access to “basically anything”. Not everything is even on the internet period
The only shows that I’ve noticed is impossible to find is golden balls. Would love to watch it, but it seems to not be available at all.
Other shows are findable but a headache, like who wants to be a millionaire. Even super recent seasons a lot of the guys don’t want to deal with.
If you dont have time and resources for pirating content safely and independently, I think Hulu has a new subscriber deal going on.
Plex was the alternative here, that generally covered all services. Hence the complaining bud. It served as a nice alternative to straight up torrenting etc.
Yeah it’s nice when others do all the work for you.
But this community will def help you set up your own server. Feel free to share that link out when you set it up.
I’m on quite a few discords. Hopefully when those die there will be new active communities. Until then.
I’d have to agree. I’ve been pirating for more than two decades but have always viewed stuff like PlexShares with disdain. It brings negative attention to the rest of us when people are doing it for profit plus I don’t like that randos are charging other randos to watch free content. I share my Plex server with friends and family but don’t charge because it’s running for me and my spouse/kid primarily and being able to share it is just a bonus.
I run a US based P4S. if anyone is interested, DM me
