@eleitl hopefully good sense will prevail over time. I always enjoyed having a personal website and federated protocols allowed me to do so while simultaneously having the ability to stay connected to the rest of the federated web which by itself is a great model. Add to it no ads, algorithms or engagement shenanigans this is going to be a healthier way to connect. But it’ll grow slowly since the learning curve is quite steep for the average person.
I was about to post my arr suite until i read your last line :D For recommendations i follow some youtube critics (like stories of old, mubi) who regularly provide recommendations and my tastes match with theirs. Then there’s reddit/lemmy movie forums. And i just use QBittorrents in built search to just download if i’m not tracking the movie/tv on my arr stack. And for playback locally i use mpv. I tried streaming services a long time ago but they are incredibly inconvenient compared to how flexible it is to watch/find something on torrents and the quality is also better.