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?
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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.
I usually just say " odd, i cant seem to find that one"
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.
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?
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.
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- You cant host them because your heathen server catches fire every time you rip one of the movies
Well, just don’t host them, what she gonna do? Tell the police ?
I’d say a good middle ground could be making that stuff only visible from your mom’s user (or even setting up a completely separate server)?
It depends on what YOU want to do, really… personally, I would be ok hosting religious nonsense if asked, as long as it’s not generally available in kids’ accounts and stuff (also, porn), but I would come clean and outright refuse if it was neonazi,racist and/or conspiracy stuff. It depends on where you decide to draw the line.
BTW: there’s also the passive/aggressive, cowardly option of sayng “I’ll rip them when I have time” and then sequester all the DVDs and only ever find the time to rip the ones you don’t mind
Use your words. Tell her you don’t want to and why.
Whenever people ask me to put up right wing propaganda type shit I just say I can’t find it
This was gonna be my suggestion as well.
I also go in and prune the library every so often to get rid of my sister in law’s trashy reality TV shows.
I bet you’d get upset if someone pruned your trashy videogsme collection.
Is it really so hard just to let people enjoy what they enjoy without being a dick about it?
Some people just love to dictate to others, think they know best.
What I’ve learned over the years is how wrong I can be in my own ignorance, and adversarialism about my ignorance has never convinced me of anything.
Hard/humbling lessons.
I loooove bad movies. Not religious-bad, more mystery science theater bad.
I rip everything and plunk it into it’s own library just for me.
If you have the space and time, go ahead and limit access to her. She’s already seen them or will anyway. You hosting a file for one individual isn’t going to tip the grand scale of anything.
If you have a moral issue against it, don’t host the content. You’ve already made up your mind, it’s just taking you a while to realize it.
Blunt answer, but an honest one, appreciate it
Build her a server, install it at her house, set up some sort of automated DVD ripping mechanism so that she can digitize her own collection, wait for the inevitable tech support call, then go spend a Sunday afternoon fixing her server and digitizing her collection for her while she makes you dinner. You get to call it “quality time”, and you get fed while keeping her happy and her collection as far away from yours as possible. Win/win, everyone is happy.
I don’t know if you can do this with Jellyfin but this is what I could do with Plex:
- create an account for her
- create a new dir for her movies
- create a new movie library called “Mom’s special” which watches this dir
- share the new library with her account
- share the rest of the libraries with her account
- drop the garbage in the special dir
In the end no one else sees Mom’s special, while your mom sees everything and Mom’s special.
You can do this with Jellyfin, exactly like your instructions.
Perfect. That checks one more requirement on my migration checklist. 🥹
I migrated from Plex to Jellyfin maybe a year and a half ago and haven’t looked back. Great user experience and works so well out of the box IMO. Good Android app, too. Works with Chromecast, too (though I’ve been trying to ditch Chromecast in favor of just a laptop connected to the TV via HDMI).
I started digitizing old home movies that were on VHS and created a “Home Movies” library for my family; none of us had watched them in ages since none of us have a VCR anymore, lol. Great mother’s/father’s day gift for one’s parent if you’ve got the time and equipment. It’s nice having the whole family able to easily stream our home movies.
I would be sincere:
Movies take too many space in SSD and too many resources to host, therefore I’m not going to host movies I disagree with. And if she really want this movies to be digitalized, I would give her a choice to buy new hardware (probably SSD) to be dedicated to her.
I personally believe that preserving a false and misleading picture of reality designed to trumpet a deranged cult that is working to make the world objectively worse for everyone including themselves is not acceptable.
I would say, “Look mum I love you more than anything in the world but preserving some of these movies crosses an ethical line for me.”
Of course I grew up in a house of atheist jewish academics, so making and justifying personal ethical stances that contravene wider group stances is expected behavior in my family. And we take document preservation fairly seriously.
“No.”
User requests come through ombi and I’ll reject whichever ones I feel like. No explanations, I just don’t.
