Shit goes missing after like a year
Comment on Anon sets the mood
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 2 years 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 2 years ago
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 2 years 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 2 years ago
“Who is it?”
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What goes missing? You don’t know how Usenet works.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 years ago
The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider
MrNobody@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
How do you get a provider though?
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 2 years 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 2 years ago
Because they usually cost money
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years 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 2 years ago
Comparing to torrents
Pringles@lemm.ee 2 years ago
With usenet you’re not a distributor.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
Usenet via SSL, with a provider that doesn’t log, over torrents any day.
kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I’ve been so excited with the results :)