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?
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
Plex is so good at finding trailers, shocks me how many streaming services don’t include trailers for their movies, seems like a no brainer