Are there ways to use usenet without a payment/subscription?

  • idlenonsense@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t bother with Usenet unless you have the need to keep a copy of your media. I say this as a torrent and Usenet user. Generally almost all of my needs are met with real debrid and Syncler. Occasionally if something is hard to find I’ll grab a torrent, but that’s it. Debrid is so much easier and near instant. I’ve still got Usenet block accounts that I’ve had for years because I have no need for them anymore.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen people talk about real debrid forever, and to this day, I’ve never seen any explanation of just what it is. I’ve looked it up, and all I found was a generic site with a signup, and the best description I’ve ever seen anyone use for it is “worth the money.”

      Edit: No, nevermind, I figured out what it was for. What I couldn’t figure out that put me off was the price.

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          1 year ago

          It’s actually in the megathread under tools. Basically, it’s a downloader service. Downloads torrents and ddl files to their servers, then you download from there.

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        It’s definitely worth it. I had it for years and it worthed it just to stream stuff, but the functionality that let’s me bypass limits of hosting sites is just a bonus. Now I don’t have to sub for every damn file sharing site under the moon.