#gnutella — Public Fediverse posts

Someone asked about #gnutella query routing after my last blog so I wrote a new one: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/how-gnutella-scaled-to-handle-query-traffic.html

Someone asked about #gnutella query routing after my last blog so I wrote a new one: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/how-gnutella-scaled-to-handle-query-traffic.html

#gnutella #distributed

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html

#gnutella #distributed

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html

@h4ckernews

Yes, #p2p gnutella. I remember.

> For most #Gnutella was a file transfer tool. This categorization misses a basic function of the #protocol. At its core, Gnutella is just a peer-to-peer #search engine for blobs.

> We could have used it as a poor man's #DNS system, or a global metadata lookup table for key/value pairs, or a matchmaking service for your Unreal Tournament league, but that never really happened. Gnutella was good at providing file downloads that matched search queries, and that is what history remembers it for.

@h4ckernews

Yes, #p2p gnutella. I remember.

> For most #Gnutella was a file transfer tool. This categorization misses a basic function of the #protocol. At its core, Gnutella is just a peer-to-peer #search engine for blobs.

> We could have used it as a poor man's #DNS system, or a global metadata lookup table for key/value pairs, or a matchmaking service for your Unreal Tournament league, but that never really happened. Gnutella was good at providing file downloads that matched search queries, and that is what history remembers it for.

🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Ah, #Gnutella, the ancient relic of decentralized tech that nobody asked for but everyone used to hoard pirated music 🎶. Rick Carlino waxes poetic about a protocol that peaked before most of its users understood what "peer-to-peer" meant, much like explaining rotary phones to TikTok influencers 📞➡️📱.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html #DecentralizedTech #PeerToPeer #MusicPiracy #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html

#HackerNews #Gnutella #P2P #protocol #technology #decentralization #networking

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html

#HackerNews #Gnutella #P2P #protocol #technology #decentralization #networking

Day 999 of #gnutella protocol exploration for fun and nostalgia. I just added a #webrtc extension to my client for fun. It works great, but kind of makes me wish IPv6 happened. Imagine being able to just open sockets between two machines on the internet and not think about NAT.

Day 999 of #gnutella protocol exploration for fun and nostalgia. I just added a #webrtc extension to my client for fun. It works great, but kind of makes me wish IPv6 happened. Imagine being able to just open sockets between two machines on the internet and not think about NAT.

I’m continuing my deep dive into #gnutella history and am finding that source code for 0.4 spec compliant clients have all but disappeared. If anyone can find working Gnutella 0.4 clients (not 0.6) let me know. I think I want to build an archive.

I’m continuing my deep dive into #gnutella history and am finding that source code for 0.4 spec compliant clients have all but disappeared. If anyone can find working Gnutella 0.4 clients (not 0.6) let me know. I think I want to build an archive.

clearly the release of #bluesky has impacted #mastodon heavily. but that does not mean that it no longer has a reason to exist - open decentralized networks have a tendency to stick around (if you don't believe me, research #gnutella for example).

“No matter what sort of published information is being shared, we urge people to reject the assumption that some person or company has a natural right to prohibit sharing and dictate exactly how the public can use it. Even the US legal system nominally rejects that anti-social idea.” ⸺ Richard Matthew Stallman (2000)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gnutella.html

#fsf #gnu #gnutella #p2p #rms

“No matter what sort of published information is being shared, we urge people to reject the assumption that some person or company has a natural right to prohibit sharing and dictate exactly how the public can use it. Even the US legal system nominally rejects that anti-social idea.” ⸺ Richard Matthew Stallman (2000)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gnutella.html

#fsf #gnu #gnutella #p2p #rms

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Best to worst: #fopnu #nicotine+ ( #soulseek ) #aMule ( #edonkey2000 #ed2k ) #EiskaltDC++ ( #dcpp ) #gnutella #Shareaza #qBittorrent ( #BitTorrent #torrent )

My dream social media platform. What do you think, what are the most interesting ideas, what other features would you like to see, how would be your perfect social media platform?

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Best to worst: #fopnu #nicotine+ ( #soulseek ) #aMule ( #edonkey2000 #ed2k ) #EiskaltDC++ ( #dcpp ) #gnutella #Shareaza #qBittorrent ( #BitTorrent #torrent )

My dream social media platform. What do you think, what are the most interesting ideas, what other features would you like to see, how would be your perfect social media platform?

A new gtk-gnutella release! Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... #gnutella