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  • RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    1 year ago

    “once you go usenet, you will never go back.” true.

    Been a torrent kiddie since the old days and thought this was the end all be all of online availability of stuff i want.

    Friend of me got an unlimited account on fastusenet and let me hook into it. 20€/y for a very nice german & international newsgroup forum with unlimited API access that was made with sonarr / radarr in mind.

    I can and don’t want to ever go back…it’s blazing fast, whenever i find something, i can be certain that it’s there and ready for download; Unlike torrents… just bcs u got a magnet doesn’t mean there are enough seeders. And then it takes sooooooo long. On usenet i get my 350mbit/s and it can even be unpacked while being downloaded.

    That way i can request a movie and watch it in ~20min even if it’s a BR-REMUX that is like 80~90GB

    I happily pay for that!

    • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.com
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      1 year ago

      The only time I ever even consider using torrents, is for an obscure piece of content which I cannot find on usenet.

      And even then, I do it all manually. There is too much “bad” content hosted there.

      Edit- Please ignore my random downvote. nohbdyuno really… loves downvoting my comments for some odd reason.

    • 0bscur3@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Which German forums can you recommend? Would like to check it out as I cannot find any German content on public trackers.

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      1 year ago

      Does that forum/indexer also have spanish content? German seems to be rare also. But that’s for both Usenet and BitTorrent.