I have been enjoying Jellyfin for many years. Plex is proprietary, so I never tried it.

Yeah, RSS is just an XML file that describes a feed. You should be able to just put the feed URL into an RSS reader and that's it. Don't use some RSS service; just install an RSS reader onto your computer or phone.

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I think the big thing to remember there is that you're not the author of the underlying software. So long as you do your part to make sure you don't install software with known vulnerabilities and then keep that up to date, you shouldn't hold yourself responsible if there's a compromise.

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I ran a myBB like a decade ago and it's pretty simple. Most annoying part is going to be keeping things up to date for security purposes, but it's a good first self hosting thing to get into. It's one of the first things I ever hosted.

What sort of things are we trying to protect children from seeing anyway? I can't really think of anything that would irreparably scar a child that wouldn't also scar an adult.

I encountered hardcore pornography at the age of 10 because of a bad influence of a friend, and I think I turned out the ...

Yay! I'm curious why you reacted so quickly and broadly. This forum isn't based in the UK, right? Why did you fear legal consequences of leaving it up?

I'm going to hazard a guess that it's because it's illegal and risks getting the forum shut down by authorities.

Also, I think this post belongs in the "Feedback" subforum with the other meta posts.

I don't keep up with public servers but I am open to the idea of hosting one myself for the community. I need to research a bit on bandwidth requirements though. I have relatively good upload speed, but I need to see what the per-user load looks like.

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