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P2P alternatives for centralised products

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Many services have problem that each other and thus their valuable database is not connected to each other. imagine what would happen if websites suddenly ceased to exist due to a failure blackout - google, facebook, youtube - half of humanity would be cut off from the world. And this problem fixed P2P model.

Recommendens links: https://github.com/kgryte/awesome-peer-to-peer

  1. OpenBazaar is an open source project to create a decentralized network (peer to peer) for online commerce —using cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Zcash)— that has no fees and cannot be censored.

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    • Free
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    kompowiec2’s note

    services to replace: Amazon icon Amazon eBay icon eBay AliExpress icon AliExpress

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    You can transfer anything you want without storing the data on a server first. You can even stream video files or preview images directly.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    services to replace: any file hosting File sharing using WebRTC, ideally for IM which not supported DCC.

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    Cjdns is a networking protocol and reference implementation, founded on the ideology that networks should be easy to set up, protocols should scale up smoothly, and security should be ubiquitous.

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    • Free
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    IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in.

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    kompowiec2’s note

    protocol to replace: HTTP icon HTTP this compilated kademilia + bittorrent + git + CDN

    a lot of time will pass before he accepts, however, he would solve the problem of the almost all services

    https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

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    IPFSTube is a player and uploader for videos, stored on the distributed IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) network.

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    • Go (Programming Language)
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    centralised services to replace: YouTube icon YouTube Vimeo icon Vimeo Dailymotion icon Dailymotion Metacafe icon Metacafe LiveLeak icon LiveLeak

    Also worth mentioning: PeerTube icon PeerTube

  6. Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities.

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    Protocols replace: email is great protocol which is de facto standard hovewer does exists experiments with p2p version. Also worth mentioning Jami icon Jami Ricochet icon Ricochet Mesh.im icon Mesh.im Cryptocat icon Cryptocat RetroShare icon RetroShare

    P2P communications have a cons that isn't federated so not recommended every day. one exception is here but isn't P2P.

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    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

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    centralised services to replace: Google Search icon Google Search DuckDuckGo icon DuckDuckGo Qwant icon Qwant Microsoft Bing icon Microsoft Bing Yandex.Search icon Yandex.Search Gigablast icon Gigablast Yahoo! Search icon Yahoo! Search ....

    Problem is with non-free database. Sure, does exists project like Searx icon Searx which is metasearch in some engines hovewer it's just prosthesis.

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    Federated and open-source social network with no ads, 500-character limit, custom emojis, and content warnings, emphasizing privacy and personal interaction.

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    • Free
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
    • OpenAPK
    • Cloudron
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    Social networking, back in your hands
    You're in control. You decide who you see in your home feed. No surprises.
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    Build an audience. Connect with diverse folks across thousands of servers.
    kompowiec2’s note

    centralised services to replace: Facebook icon Facebook X icon X Google Plus icon Google Plus VK icon VK Gab icon Gab Tumblr icon Tumblr ... mastodon worked similar to XMPP, is decentralized, fully interoperable, federated using ActivityPub

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bruce4reds
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Know any P2P VPNs?

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Balon
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Tor ?

kompowiec2
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I2P