I dunno, maybe I just had crappy indexers but usenet was always more miss than hit for me. Maybe it's superior to public torrents but private trackers are the gold standard.
As someone who used to run a Plex server and a jellyfin server for myself (not at the same time) I'd have to agree with the sentiment. If I were trying to provide it for my less techy friends/family I'd go Jellyfin again. But for just me? Video files + samba fileshare all the way. Even lets me play the videos on my phone.
It occurs to me this could be considered a low effort post, if this isnt welcome please feel free to take it down or let me know and take it down myself, I don't wish to submit stuff that isn't a fit for the community :)
Germany has implemtend a lot of measures against torrenting, effectively killing the entire scene. When you look on TPB, there is only like 4-5 recent movies in German.
I don't know what exactly they're a doing here, but it seems to be quite effective :/