cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/642061
official twitter announcement https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496
I get the desire for a centralized location but I was hoping Lemmy would be the spot. Forums just seen so fragmented, it’s nice to go to one place to see all the discussion instead of having several subpages which honestly have little action. https://lemmy.ml/c/jellyfin seemed like the best replacement for r/Jellyfin
I totally agree with you! Why didn’t they just hosted their own Lemmy instance???
Lemmy’s moderation tools are severely lacking and they seemed to want to get away from the rank by voting system and the churn created by older but relevant and active discussion being hidden on Reddit and Lemmy.
Add on user purge behavior and the headaches that causes. Can’t count the number of times I’ve been looking into an issue and came across a two year old reddit thread where the solution had been deleted. Much less likely to happen on a dedicated forum.
nice switching back to good oll forums
Congrats, that’s the kind of mentality that will make me move from Plex to Jellyfin tomorrow evening :)
I couldn’t be happier having made the move off of plex to jellyfin a couple years back. Plex is basically dead to me since they made their move into enshittification. Jellyfin is perfect! Works great never crashes etc.
Only one question remains: will it federate
I was just thinking that common forum software implementing ActivityPub would be a great way to link all of these disparate web forums that are still active and have useful content.
You kind of can with wordpress and the AP plugin. it works with bbpress --maybe not perfectly yet, but it’s a start.
Yes, yes, yes, please yes! Let it use the ActivityPub protocol, it’ll be so epic pogchamp, fire lit fam 🙏🏻
Good for them. Using Discord for development work has never made sense to me.
As someone who had to Google a bunch of docker issues and constantly got redirected to locked down subreddits, I’m all for developers hosting their own communities. At least then they have an incentive to keep the communities alive.
just as long as it’s not a shitty scenario such as using discord where the information is 1. not publicly searchable because it’s stuck behind a login page, and 2. even though technically discord has a search function, good luck finding what you’re looking for
Absolutely agree that hiding knowledge behind a paywall is crappy. I hit that issue so many times with Red Hat that I standardized on debian variants.
Searching, while a function of any modern forum, is easily bypassed with a modern search engine / crawler. Unless the forum admin takes the unlikely step of disabling web crawlers on their site, you can pass the
site:<website>filter into your search. For example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=subtitles+site%3Aforum.jellyfin.org&ia=web shows forum posts regarding subtitles.Chats are not forums. Discord is the same bullcrap than Reddit and Facebook, just newer on the enshittification cycle. People should just have forums and someone could make a containerized microservice that federates it to Activity Hub. Now it’s searchable, indexable, publicly available and archivable.
@Kurt Would have been great if it would have been federated
Hooo, time traveling to the 90s I see. Very vintage
Yeah it’s a pity they didn’t set up their own lemmy instance, that way every other lemmy instance could get the content…
They should just federate, they don’t need to use Lemmy to have it viewable from Lemmy/Kbin
just setup my lemmy acct. I do have a mastodon one tho. How find masto communities here, and vice versa?
This is heaps cool. For some reason I read it as Jellyfish are moving away from reddit.
Sweet. I’ll probably never use it :(
Says “no fee, no tracking, no hidden agenda”
Yet somehow they are offering this for free? How exactly are they keeping themselves supported?
That is (jelly)fishy…
FOSS, donations
Jellyfin is open sourced and supported by donations. I’ve used it for around a year and I can confirm there have been no fees, tracking, or anything else.
But can you make a lemmy.world feed as well. Having one place to go for everything is better than 100 places.
Eh I see no reason to have support discussions in Lemmy. Leave Lemmy for promotions, updates, and sharing content.
And why are they still on Twitter ?! Its not credible…
Probably to broadcast announcements.
Maybe… If they wanted to create an announcement effect, they could have simply stuck to their website or Mastodon etc… Posting on Twitter (!!!) the fact that they’re reacting so harshly to the Reddit case…for me it doesn’t make sense…
Dude, they want people to know, so they go to where people is. This is not field of dreams, if you build it no one will come unless you tell them where to find it. Try to relax a little, they do have a Mastodon and even have a Matrix instance bridged to Discord. They engage on Lemmy as well. Just, breathe deeply and put the toxicity away.
I’m relaxed, thank you for your advice, no toxicity here, just a reflection on using closed networks to promote free software… It doesn’t change the fact that I really love Jellyfin and will never switch back to Plex or anything else…
I think it’s cool they are using myBB, I’m a big fan for that style of community.
