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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s also a fscking mess to set up a Usenet downloader, especially since it’d be a bunch of buggy weird stuff ending with -arr in the names and web UIs.

It's really not. You pretty much need to just put in some api keys for your indexer, downloader, and provider, and away you go.

In Usenet messages are replicated over all services offering that newsgroup. I hope the downsides are clear.

What downsides are you talking about in regards to downloading content from usenet?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Centralization, need to have a big commercial provider which you can pay (as someone in Russia ...).

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How does that apply to this comment of yours?

In Usenet messages are replicated over all services offering that newsgroup. I hope the downsides are clear.

That's not centralization - unless you also consider the fediverse centralized?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago

That puts limits on scaling it. Fediverse - honestly too centralized for my taste.