From bouncing around my favorite corners of the Internet, I get the impression that large numbers of people have "a guy" (of any gender), akin to a weed dealer in furtiveness and legality, who is hooking them up with an underground, probably Plex-based (but increasingly moving to Jellyfin), streaming service. I get the impression that there are hundreds to thousands of these little "Plex server" operations, each serving a couple dozen to a hundred or so users out of the goodness/vileness of each "guy"'s heart and the hobby budget of that "guy"'s homelab. This isn't all Plex gets used for or even necessarily the main use case, but I think they're out there.
Obviously no "guy" will admit to doing this, but my "Plex Server Guy Theory" neatly explains this post announcing that general discussions of piracy are allowed in the Lemmy.ml Plex community and this post by someone apparently serving enough new Plex user volume that a webhook would be convenient to have. I've also seen people discussing Plex refer to "my users", as if they have a user base of friends and trusted or semi-trustred acquaintances rather than just a household or family.
I personally neither have nor am a "Plex Server Guy", nor do I know anyone who has admitted to me that they do have or are one, so I can't be sure they really exist. But I have suspicions.
Are "Plex Server Guys" as I imagine them real and common and I am just too square to have ever been invited to do crimes with everyone else? Are they rare in real life but enriched in the dubious/cool corners of the Internet? Does it depend on your country? What's the deal?
Doesn't Jellyseer take care of this? It integrates with your arr stack and suggests content based on your views and media. You can set it to auto approve or wait for your ok. I just finished building me a server 2 weeks ago because my initial testing with an old laptop and Jellyfin went so well. Hooking up my parents this week (again, with better performance).
Do you have a link or some keywords I can use to look into this? I have heard of jellyfin before. Jellyfin server?
For me the journey started with this post from 2 years ago by @devidedbyzer0. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320
Things have changed a bit by now but it gives you a great complete all in one overview of how it all is connected together. One of the things changed is prowlarr instead of the suggested search tool.
Also I have set up a gluetun tunnel for Qbittorrent connected to airvpn. This requires a few tweaks to sonarr and radarr but not that hard (designate network service in your compose file and some port guiding)
If docker and docker compose all makes no sense to you first start there. Once you understand you can just have your stack up and running with just one text file of a couple of dozen lines, you'll appreciate the whole thing and understand why ppl run it this way. I migrated my entire stack last week with only a few tweaks... It was a great experience.
If you need some tips let me know.