Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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So tired of private trackers and usenet. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by malachi347@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I'm a data hoarder for sure. Have many SCSI Hard Drives in my closet to prove it... I sure miss the olden days when it comes to downloading (and not necessarily pirating). Anyone remember Hotline and/or Carracho? People would set up little servers and take pride in building little communities around specific content. English Dubbed Anime, Web UI resources and files, porn of course, Freeware, foriegn movies, even FONT servers were always fun... It was not just straight forward (you could even chat or email an admin and get a response fairly fast) but it was fun and you could meet like minded people.

I guess I'm just venting because my mom got sick and I haven't logged into any of my trackers in a year and now I'm back to square one with invites. Uhhhg.

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[–] xilliah 2 points 11 months ago

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[–] closetoballing@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

I used to upload Warez in a million files. The community was fun. But I would never want to go back to those days.

[–] activoice@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You could do a trial subscription to Easynews (Usenet provider)

They have a search feature so you can browse Usenet content on their web interface. It's the one feature that sets them apart from other providers.

The issue of course becomes a lot of titles are obfuscated. But you can browse like all posted 1080p video for example and figure out what the video is from the thumbnails. Or if you know how long a video is you can search using the video length for example.

If the videos are in MP4 containers you can stream them in your browser, no download required.