BitTorrent, Gnutella, and IPFS

[sjehuda]

Greetings!

I am drafting a post about P2P protocols https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal/2024-12-19-p2p-protocols.gmi

I have examined (and still examining) eD2K, Gnutella, and Kad; and I am happy to see files that are probably defunct from the BitTorrent network, still appear in eD2k and Kad.

However, it appears that Shareaza is the only client to include BitTorrent, eD2K, Gnutella, and Kad. There were at least three attempts and all of them were halted without a reason.

1st Problem: BitTorrent sharing stops upon deleting or modifying a torrent

BitTorrent is strict, by filenames and directory structure.

See explanation at https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal/2024-12-27-metalink-versus-torrent.gmi

2nd Problem: BitTorrent clients are focused on BitTorrent

Asking BitTorrent clients to support eD2k results in objections qbittorrent/qBittorrent#9403

3rd Problem: IPFS is exclusive

IPFS has rare implementations of its protocol, with a few Linux distributions to include packages for IPfS, and all IPFS packages of ArchLinux fail to build, hence most of the IPFS activity is conducted via HTTP gateways by using HTTP/HTML Browsers that record this activity (this is even worse than KaZaa).

Solution

Support BitTorrent, Gnutella, and IPFS.

An additional support for Metalink would provide an option to share sets of files.

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/journal/2024-12-22-metalink-as-a-companion-of-p2p-networks.gmi

[Vollstrecker]

Sort answer: No.

Long answer: I have a pile of work and almost no time to keep the current state somehow running and at least 3 others have the same problem. If you have the manpower to at least get the migration to current wx done, we could talk about functional additions.

[weskerty]

I would also like a unification with torrents to make the lists bigger.