I’m using all the ‘green’ lists from Firebog.

I’m in a similar situation. I use 2 plex servers and Synching. Whenever I add media to my server at home, it syncs to their server. Don’t have to worry about random upload spikes.

And make sure to turn off The setting that auto plays the videos in browser if you mouse over them (don’t remember the setting’s name). Hovering your mouse over it counts as you watching/playing the video if the setting is on.

Windows 11 as my daily driver/gaming machine, Debian for my proxmox cluster/vms.

You only need one username for each group of federated servers/instances. Click Communities at the top, then click All under List of communities. that should list all communities known to lemmy.ml. If a community is not known, you would need to search for it (eg. [email protected]).