Doesn’t it actually require you to sign up to an account on some app hosting platform, rather than self host it?

Yayyy unsecured connections for logins.

Yeah, this doesn’t add up. If the friends added you after setting their profiles to private then SH can’t see that you’re friends.

Still waiting on rpmfusion to update. I wonder how long I’ll have to wait

Lacking a centralised server that even self-hosted instances must use to validate admins and will render your instance inaccessible if Plex’s server goes down again?

I’m fine with that.