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[-] nix@merv.news 14 points 1 year ago

What exactly is the appeal of Usenet when almost everything is available through torrents for free? I also never really understood trusting giving out your payment information.

Do people use Usenet as forums besides the ability to share files?

[-] Acid@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

usenet is almost always faster, there's never an issue with torrent lacking seeds and it's theoretically safer as you do not upload any content when downloading which if you do download a lot using torrents will put you in a certain legal grey area about distributing files.

but aside from all of that the integration with the arr stack and the automation makes it just so much more god damned convenient.

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