cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6240929

I’m a pretty heavy torrent user, running a media server complete with sonarr/radarr for automatic downloads. I download a lot, and have multiple TBs of upload on various private trackers. I’ve been torrenting forever, but I’ve always wondered about usenet. Over and over on this, and other, forums I see people saying that usenet is way better - but why?

I understand what it is overall, but what makes it better than traditional torrenting? In my mind, it’s always just seemed like a different means to the same end. I pay for a VPN and torrent for “free”, or I pay for usenet access and download directly from there. As someone who’s “snobby” around the quality of the stuff I torrent, does usenet provide an advantage there?

Usenet fans, I’d love to hear what makes you love it! I’m always open to trying new things, and if It really is better I’d love to know why! (Plus, maybe what providers/tools etc you recommend).

      • beetlebatterEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        +1 for nzbgeek and may I suggest bundling it with nzb.su. If nzbgeek doesn’t have something you want, nzb.su probably will, and vice versa. I have not found another indexer to have something I could not get with those two. And I have not found a single indexer to have everything. So they compliment each other very well. Plus, they’re not too bad price wise compared to some other well known ones. And registration is public, so you don’t have to wait for an invite or for them to open registration.

        You could use just one, and I’d suggest it be nzbgeek, but you will probably be missing some things that the other will have.

      • joeyb4589English
        2•1 year ago

        I’m interested. I haven’t torrented in years because of security issues. How would one go about utilizing this service. You pay for Usenet, but where? And how do you use it?