I just finally got it this weekend when I got Matrix-synapse and Pixelfed working on the same box.

All I can say is good for you! It wasn’t easy. And it’s so powerful.

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Cool link! Thanks

Yeah, I think it works fine-ish for a single instance, but federation needs work.

Yep. nothing yet.

Thanks!

Though I appear to be having trouble having people follow me from other servers. I don’t see you in my followers list, and when I tried following a test account on another server, I didn’t see their posts. Not sure what’s going on. Does it just take a while for the servers to sync?

Do you see any of my posts?

@ciuffo@ciuffo.servebeer.com

Yeah, but that’s the thing. You can only search if you know the exact username of the user on the other server. But you can’t find usernames on other servers without creating an account there.

I wish it was more like Lemmy where you can browse other instances without an account at that instance.

That makes sense. It is a bit ironic. Like everyone wants to go back to old Instagram where you just keep up with friends, but I think we’ve all grown accustomed to our feeds and our friends don’t have enough cute cats and dogs to accommodate our interests.

How do you find someone on Instagram if you are not an Instagram user?

How do you find something on Mazda Forum if you are on Reddit?

How you find something on AVForums if you are on AVS Forum?

If you’re trying to promote federation, this isn’t the way to go about it.

you take the post/user’s original URL,

Ok, but if I don’t have an account on their instance, how do I even find their URL?

Right, but hashtags only show posts on my instance which at the moment is just me.

https://drop-kicker.com/2014/02/your-fundraising-goal-is-bullshit/

Ok, so I spent the weekend getting my own Pixelfed instance working for my friends who want off Instagram.

My big question, is how do you discover new content?

Sure you can follow people on other instances, but how do you find them in the first place?

Also, basically all of the content I’ve been able to find so far has been artsy photos of fences and beaches and whatnot. It’s pretty and all, but there’s not much of humanity in my feed.

What’s funny is that’s how it started. Apple sold movies as early as 2007 before Netflix or Amazon video or whatever and expected you to host the files locally either on your computer or your AppleTV (which had a hard disk drive at the time) and stream it locally over iTunes. If you lost the file, that was supposed to be it.

Of course, you still had to authenticate your files with the DRM service, and eventually they moved libraries online and gave you streaming access to any files you had purchased.

Yeah, but we always run them in native formats, so it’s not a big load on the processor. We only watch the 4K stuff at home where it’s got a hardwired gigabit ethernet connection.

If you saw my other comment, I’m kind of talking myself out of this upgrade since I managed to get qsv working on my current rig.

That shouldn’t be the case. I’d look into getting this fixed properly before spending a ton of money for new hardware that you may not actually need. It smells like to me that encode or decode part aren’t actually being done in hardware here.

Right you are!

Dug into it a little more. There were some ffmpeg flags that weren’t being enabled by the latest release of Photoprism. Had to move to the test build. https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/discussions/4093

While it’s faster than real time now, Photoprism still won’t start streaming until the preview is fully generated, so longer video clips can take a minute or two to start playing. It only has to happen once per file, but it’s still annoying. There’s a feature to pre-transcode video, but it’s only to get in to a streamable format. It doesn’t check bitrate/size until you actually start to play.

I might write a script to pre-generate the preview files, but either way, I don’t think I need to upgrade the server quite yet.

Not yet! But I do have a bunch of different apps running, and I’ve always had to baby it. Looking forward to having more room for activities.

I have a media server with over 1000 Blu-ray and DVDs on it (and a few UHDs).

Recommendations: decide if you care about subtitles early. Ripping subtitles off blu ray is a pain in the ass. They’re not stored as text but rather as images, so you need software like SubtitleEdit to OCR those images back into text. It gets it wrong all the time. Ripping off DVD is easy, so I just grab all sub tracks off DVDs.

I have six 8TB drives in a RAID6 configuration using MDADM on a Ubuntu Server box. It’s using a very cheap motherboard with integrated CPU. I had to add a PCI SATA card to have enough ports. Same machine hosts all my photos, security camera footage, and other files.

Movies are ripped on my gaming PC using makemkv and Handbrake. I haven’t bothered finding a method for re-encoding UHD since we’re only going to watch them at home where bandwidth isn’t an issue (so I have like 300GB of LoTR lol). I picked up a bunch of cheap used drives from goodwill (mostly DVD drives), so I’ll queue up 5 or so movies before bed and let it run overnight.

Movies are hosted on Plex and watched on phones, tablets, and AppleTVs around our house.