If you prefer Rust, yaydl (disclosure: I wrote it) would be an alternative to yt-dlp. (Patches welcome - right now, I much depend on Invidious to get YouTube contents.)

+1 for Beets - awesome software!

That’s mostly because using inferior software causes stress and stress is unhealthy.

sam >>>>>>>>> Ed >>>> Sed >>>>> Vi >>>>> Kate >>>>> Vi$ual$tudio

Maybe there were days when all Usenet servers had all hierarchies. I’m probably too young.

In a way, Lemmy is essentially a reimplementation of Usenet. Decentralized, federated forums.

Usenet was never really “federated”. All servers mirror slightly different hierarchies (with the free ones usually focusing on text and the commercial ones focusing on binary files).

What server do you use?

I’ve been a happy user of Eternal September (the name alone was awesome enough!) for quite some time now.

I still use it as forums. That’s what it can do best.

I wish Usenet wasn‘t misunderstood as a file sharing network anymore.

Depends on the task. SVN or Fossil (if you need a web interface) for cathedral-style, Mercurial for bazaar-style, I’d say. Especially because of their easy to understand UX.

1. Git is for bazaar-style development. However, most of my own projects are cathedral-style.
2. Git’s default user experience (CLI command syntax, for example) is weird. There are reasons why Git GUIs are popular and (e.g.) SVN GUIs never were.
3. Git is rather spammy in terms of hard disk usage.

There are better backends though.

Both suck

And it still does not support my server.

Not yet.

No. Git is inefficient for small numbers of files. Just do a “find | wc” and/or a “du -hs” in your repository folder. SVN exists for a reason.

Git might be over engineered for this purpose. Maybe SVN?

I keep my server backups on a dedicated backup server.

I run OpenBSD and OmniOS.

Docker does not even work on my servers - wrong operating system, I guess. Docker containers have one more disadvantage on systems where it does work: the contents of a container aren’t updated when the host operating system is, basically leaving 0-days unpatched longer than absolutely necessary.

Also, using a container adds severe overhead.

IMO, Unison is a pretty good software for this use case.

APL!