There are now many technologies for P2P file sharing:

  • Usenet
  • Bittorrent
  • IPFS
  • Tenfinger
  • more?

And also several technologies for anonymization:

  • VPNs
  • Tor
  • I2P

AFAICT the most popular option is still Bittorrent with various public and private trackers and indexers. Private trackers seem to be the most effective option that communities have converged on.

I’ve tried all of the above solutions over the years and while I think something like I2P sounds great in theory, it doesn’t seem to actually work well in practice. Because it’s not terribly popular, it’s hard to know what to expect.

We clearly still haven’t found the ideal model that can provide both good performance, discovery, access, availability, and anonymity. But do you think we will actually make progress on these problems? We seem to have stabilized on a local maximum.

  • UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nlEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I tried amule and it is technically better than soulseek but the client is not as friendly.

    This one particularly is pretty sketchy where bold and colour define if it is shared or not. I’m currently not certain if I’m sharing my root dir recursively or not, I’ll come back once they’ve improved it.

    https://github.com/amule-org/amule/issues/1519

    • MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Awesome that you opened a github ticket. Most people just complain on forums/reddit/lemmy.

      And yes i agree with you, there are some stuff that can be more user friendly and less confusing.