Any open source P2P apps you can recommend? Anything really, torrent/file sharing/messenger...

  • https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent
  • https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition
  • https://code.briarproject.org/briar
  • what more?

Magic Wormhole comes close. I don't think it 100% peer-to-peer since there's a coordination server, but that's not so different to most P2P programs on the internet, which need something like a STUN or ICE server (or port mapping) to get around NAT.

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Check out qaul.net

Yggsrqsil network I2P Freenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N. IPFS SSB / Manyver.se / PZP Briar Project Tailscale Syncthing Localsend

There are lots of others, but most either shut down, got turned into scams, or were always scams.

There was one chat app I remember, I think it was called firechat or something. They ended up removing all the P2P features from it and removed all references from their advertising.

I have a strange love in my heart for IPFS. I can't justify it, but it's there. Beautiful atoms... such promise...

Same

Monero - private, permissionless, decentralized, p2p, digital cash system.

Reticulum - cryptography-based networking stack designed to build secure, decentralized, and resilient local or wide-area networks using readily available hardware. It operates independently of traditional internet protocols (like IP), enabling communication under adverse conditions such as high latency and extremely low bandwidth with:

  • Forced e2e encryption and forward secrecy
  • Initiator anonymity
  • Multi-hop and self-configuring routing
  • Heterogenous network support
  • Decentralized addressing

Basically internet 2.0

Arweave - private, permissionless, decentralized, p2p, permanent data storage/server.

https://positive-intentions.com/

Croc file share, uses a relay to find each other https://github.com/schollz/croc

Session Messenger, uses a tor style server network https://github.com/session-foundation/session-android

Tox is interesting, though potentially less secure than Briar as they rolled their own encryption and have not been audited (afaik).

there is gnu jami - messenger and video/audio calls

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