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Ask HN: Did all P2P projects die?

4 pointsby r0f1over 4 years ago
I was looking around on Github a little bit, and could not help but notice that almost all peer-to-peer projects seemed to have been discontinued for at least 5 years. Did all P2P projects die?

3 comments

djsumdogover 4 years ago
I think Gnutella protocols of the previous generation wouldn&#x27;t survive due to privacy issues. Much of the world is behind NAT today, which makes P2P difficult without hacks like WebRTC relays.<p>There are a number of distributed applications and protocols out there: ZeroNet, FreeNet, Mastodon&#x2F;Pleroma&#x2F;PeerTube (ActivityPub), I2P, IPFS, etc.<p>Distributed protocols are probably the future.
containerdsover 4 years ago
Lots of great P2P projects thriving: libp2p - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libp2p.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libp2p.io&#x2F;</a> IPFS - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;</a>
pfrazeover 4 years ago
Well, beaker released today, so there&#x27;s that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BeakerBrowser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1334213292978548739?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BeakerBrowser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1334213292978548739...</a>