Ok damn that’s reassuring. I’m running Plex too and I’m sure that’s using much more cpu. Luckily don’t have a ton of users so hopefully never too much. I’ve debated having a second smaller pc that just does the Plex hosting and transcoding and leave the other box as just a NAS

It’s a widely accepted standard for decentralised social media. It can be adapted to many use cases relatively easily. If someone makes a better link aggregator server based on ActivityPub, it would be much easier to bring all the lemmy data and users to it than if someone started from scratch. As in what happened going from Reddit to lemmy, as Reddit doesn’t have a standardised federation behavior.

A quick search told ed2k/kad are other p2p networks. What kind of files do you get from that? And can you automate it with sonarr or similar?

Ive heard proton vpn is good, but I’m also looking for a good alternative. Damn shame they’re getting rid of port forwarding

What’s the balance of usenet to torrent you’re ending up with? I’m debating going to usenet but I find plenty on most public trackers

Echoing what others have said, use a solid VPN to actually download anything, and only make it accessible outside your network with reasonable protections. For really solid security you can use tailscale to only expose your server to your personal devices

What community is that? Make it here and start the move. I’m sure others from there are looking for an alternative