Interesting problem here. So I self host jellyfin, happy to share my (owned) movies with my family. Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing.
However, what I didn’t bet on was the amount of garbage, terrible movies she would give me. There’s a few that are fine, but the vast majority are, well I’ll just put it bluntly, christian propaganda. I don’t think any of them are as terrible as some of the worst case, but think “My life was horrible until I found god now look and see how fulfilled I am” type propaganda - and they make for horrible plots. Left Behind with Kirk Cameron is a good example. Even removing the blatent boring christian plots - it’s just a horribly made movie. Cheap, not thought out well, and honestly I read the book decades ago, it’s a horrible adaptation too.
Not that I keep only top tier movies in my libraries, but these are, well they just bring a pit to my stomach.
What would you do in my situation? (And I’m going to go ahead and say the pure atheist comments aren’t needed, yes of course I could burn them, or dance around them, but I’m not looking to just burn the bridge between my mother and myself over a lifetime of her indoctrination and bad taste in movies). I’m more looking for generic, how do you handle your users asking you to put content you don’t find appealing on your server?
Christian propaganda? Destroy it and hide the evidence.
The less of that evil in the world, the better.
A solution would be to place these movies in a seperate Library and only give your mother access to that library, so it does not show up for you other users.
Pretty much this it gets it’s own folder and in jellyfin it’s own library. You just give mom access to this and whatever else you want to. you unselect that library for everyone else. The setting is under users. It’s straightforward and is a check mark based select. You probably have it set to all libraries right now. Uncheck that and you can pick and choose per user.
This is it. Also given the low quality of the movies production wise you can even rip them at suboptimal settings. I am sure Mom won’t care if she watches her Christian propaganda at 4k or 720p with some visual artifacts.
720p? Pfffft. 240i. Rip them in ‘2014 YouTube over 2G’ quality.
I don’t have this problem exactly, but what I would recommend is putting it in a specific separate library. You could even set it up so only your mother’s account can access it, and you never have to see it, or you could have it visible but never go to it.
Would probably do this, but also rip it in very poor quality to be sure it does not take too much space :D
Malicious compliances in action. Not that you can’t do, but this can tense up the relationship.
Lol go the old school yify method. 700mb h.264 encode.
Enjoy your 7 pixels!
This is a good idea, and an approach I’m going to think about and probably take. Then it’s away from everything else, and not polluting my actual good movies.
Do one of the following:
- Tell your mother you’re not comfortable hosting that type of content as a non-believer.
- Lie and hand back the propaganda movies and say you couldn’t rip them to some unknown rip protecting they use and there’s not enough resources online to figure it out.
- Host the content and let your mother liver her life and don’t say anything.
I’d personally use option 1, but you do you.
- You cant host them because your heathen server catches fire every time you rip one of the movies
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Well, just don’t host them, what she gonna do? Tell the police ?
Just put them in a separate library and only share it with people that ask for it.
You can use this as an opportunity to have a conversation about what it is about those movies that she likes. This could open up to a larger conversation where you can connect and grow your relationship as mother and child. Or she might just say something vague and simple and you can ignore the movies while they sit in a separate library.
It was a mistake to agree to that. Also I don’t see how the types of movies change a thing
I mean, you don’t have to watch it.
I don’t like hosting things I disagree with for others to view and consume
So don’t?
You made an offer likely knowing what content your mother consumed.
Also, doing this for her means those charlatans aren’t actually getting her money.
Something to consider in favor of doing your mom a solid.
Just make sure you out satanic films in the folder and rename them to Christian themed titles.
For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn’t appear in my library at all, so I don’t really care. Even better, I’ve spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.
I tell people, like my friend that wanted a bunch of drivel kids stuff, that if they give me 2 hard drives I’ll set them up as their own library.
Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing.
Did your mom buy your computer and hard drives? I doubt it. You spent your own money, right? So she’s giving you a whole bunch of stuff which is consuming your space. Quote out the cost of buying components for a separate server for her with her own drives. When she buys the parts, build her her own server and put her stuff on it.
It’s the person’s mother, and they already accepted the request. I feel like giving her a price quote is a huge jackass move.
Ive not shared mine to the point anyone can arbitrarily get media. They have to ask. And I can always say “Oh its not available on my sources” or whatever
hindsight is 20/20 there, yeah, wish I hadn’t done this. To others, this is the best approach, don’t accept it in the first place
You rip them and provide them to a community that will then re-dub them into something fun. Hilarity ensues.
