Shit goes missing after like a year
Comment on Anon sets the mood
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 3 months agoHahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 months ago
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it’s not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven’t had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*
threeduck@aussie.zone 3 months ago
“Who is it?”
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What goes missing? You don’t know how Usenet works.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 months ago
The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider
MrNobody@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Retention for 90%+ of providers is at least 4500 days for binary files and 110000 days for newsgroups. Have two providers, one monthly and one block, that run on different backbones with one that takes down for dmca and one that doesn’t and you’ll be fine. There are very very very few shows or movies that you can’t get. Don’t have to worry about VPN, ratios, trackers or any of that other crap.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Thanks! And sorry, I meant to say that I don’t know how Usenet works, not you.
Follow-up question. Why is retention so important? Wouldn’t they get reloaded again? Or is it mainly a problem for more obscure content.
Sat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How do you get a provider though?
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Yeah there was a lot of
googlingduckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because they usually cost money
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn’t come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you’d need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it’s just absolutely worth every penny.
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Comparing to torrents
Pringles@lemm.ee 3 months ago
With usenet you’re not a distributor.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Usenet via SSL, with a provider that doesn’t log, over torrents any day.
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I’ve been so excited with the results :)