The original post: /r/usenet by /u/ponzi314 on 2024-09-18 20:09:20.

Hey All,

I’m not sure how I’ve never heard of Usenet. I’ve been using Torrents since 2012 and just stumbled upon this lovely thing. Sure, it costs money, but not having to store/seed sounds like a nice trade-off.

So far, I’ve been researching it for a day (not that long), and so far, I’ve got the following: 1 month of FrugaNews sub. Then I signed up for Geek. I’m noticing that Geek has a lot of shows/ movies but not a lot of books. Do different indexers have different content? Are they all indexing the same data?

Do you have any tips you recommend to me? I was thinking after this 1 month “trial” I’d wait for a black Friday sale and dive in. I know it’s good to have a Provider and a backup block account. But how about Indexers? Are you supposed to have a backup indexer too? Is the only way to go with Paid Versions?

I’m in the USA so please keep that in mind when suggesting providers/indexes. I saw Eweka was a very popular one on here but its EU server so I assume that would be bad for me