Probably the latter. Almost nothing that sucked today sucked less 20, 40, 60, 80 etc… years ago. They almost universally sucked more. We’re just more aware.

For example, cops have always been beating black people; but that wasn’t common knowledge for most until recently.

Piracy is a service problem.

I’ve never actually used unraid.

You want raid plus a filesystem that can detect and correct for bitrot like xfs, btrfs or zfs. If you’re looking to get started try getting a used PC off eBay and try using TrueNAS or something similar to mirror your data too.

Lemmy needs a middle logical layer to really take off. If a local server moderats it as such, the default view for say /c/technology shouldn’t be slit across a dozen instances. Instead it should be merged into one view.

Without it you have a bunch of largely stagnant communities.

The professional thing to say here is “spam prevention”.

Watch out HP will probably disable scanning too.

Do you need it to stream simultaneously or are you okay with it streaming async? If the second, any common media server software should do you well, take a look at things DLNA compatible. That should stream to VLC easy for any workstation/phone and it supported by most smart tvs/media boxes.

If simultaneous, maybe something like obs studio could work?