Many of the old file-sharing networks are still around and actively in use. MuWire has a lot of interesting books and recordings. EMule is a good place to find music, including obscure remixes. Gnutella is mostly porn, including child porn that's so open I feel like it might be part of a law enforcement operation.

Retroshare seems like a p2p Facebook rather than a file-sharing network. I've always wanted to get into it, but I don't know anyone else using it.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

MuWire? I thought that was dead. The main dev blew a gasket over something and archived it. I see it's out of archival now, but I do wonder what brought him back.

I didn't expect eMule and Gnutella to still be active, but probably didn't know because I'm on Linux and their clients are Windows only. Others have pointed out linux builds that I somehow hadn't found until now.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.

https://github.com/zlatinb/muwire/commits/master/

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So that's where people are getting these beta versions newer than mine. I've seen them on the network but I didn't know if they were legit.

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