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Anon sets the mood (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 3 months ago (23 children)

It's Usenet babe. Get this... it's been around since 1980! Isn't that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn't broke, don't fix it.

[–] kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Hahah 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 6 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Shit goes missing after like a year

[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What goes missing? ~~You~~ I don’t know how Usenet works.

Edit: edited to say I don’t know instead of you.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider

[–] MrNobody@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

That's cool, retention a lot better now than like 10 or 20 years ago

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

So movies from 2011 and before can not be found?

[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 reuploaded again? Or is it mainly a problem for more obscure content.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Torrents persist until all seeders disappear for good, which is rare on private trackers. On usenet generally content is uploaded ASAP upon release and then only lasts as long as rentention. Maybe you'll get rereleases on usenet but it didn't seem to be a common occurance

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