Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a “champion against the darkness.”

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.

    You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.

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      2 days ago

      I’ve been hsaring about Gnutella, but have never heard of anyone actually using it. Is it still a thing? How do one get started with it?

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      4 days ago

      Feel like I’ve been doing this too long to run P2P clients on my desktop. Any good projects to let you self-host something to interact with the gnutella network on an external server? Something with a nice webui?

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        1 day ago

        If you want webinterface, then there’s nothing. gnutella is way too old for that shit. If you don’t mind connecting to a server via ssh, there’s gtk-gnutella. It has --shell flag. You need to write commands. There’s no TUI. If you just want to share from there, there’s no issue, but if you want to search and download from the search you are better using the normal gtk-gnutella (without the --shell) flag.

        I’ve tried to use the shell mode, long time ago and it was complicated. So i never did it. It was long time ago.

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        4 days ago

        Something like Qbittorrent-Nox or rTorrent/ruTorrent for Gnutella would be great.

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          1 day ago

          There’s gtk-gnutella. It has --shell flag. You need to write commands. There’s no TUI. If you just want to share from there, there’s no issue, but if you want to search and download from the search you are better using the normal gtk-gnutella (without the --shell) flag.

          I’ve tried to use the shell mode, long time ago and it was complicated. So i never did it. It was long time ago.

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            3 hours ago

            Sounds like a bad fit, even though I only want to share (it’s some relatively rare content that took me some effort to procure in the highest quality that I believe is available).

      • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Not that I know of. The shift to Bittorrent after Limewire’s demise pretty much killed new Gnutella client development. There are a few desktop clients still under “active maintenance” but most of them haven’t been updated in ages.