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.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 20 hours ago

https://bitmagnet.io/

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago (2 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?

[–] jbone@piefed.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours 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.