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.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

install gtk-gnutella and run it. Configure to share your files, leave it runing and that's it.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Torrents don't need trackers either. They can work with just DHT.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can't look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours 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.

[–] jbone@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours 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.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 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.