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I do use BitTorrent, but it's never going to beat the convenience of just searching for a file and getting it when p2p networks first came out.

For niche stuff like 1930s movies sometimes I need to start a few torrents to make sure at least one of them has seeds.

I have had success with soulseek for music, but what do you guys use for other types of files?

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[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

soulseek, fopnu, emule, dc++. For old/rare content, emule is the best.

[–] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I haven't used the old school P2P programs in over a decade. I honestly didn't think they existed anymore for some reason.

[–] TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They’re going hard still

[–] Reocken@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which client would one use for Emule nowadays?

[–] GloopTamer@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

P2P is great because when I’m using qBittorrent I can see all the suckers who are still using utorrent lol

[–] Snippet0136@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ive been experimenting with I2P with tracker2.postman.i2p

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is i2p just a privacy guard to torrent over? Or does it actually help one find content as well?

[–] Snippet0136@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

its an anonymizing tool like tor, but i2p supports bittorrent while tor does not. theirs also .i2p site like tor .onion sites. also i2p is peer to peer while tor is volunteer run with the tor project managing the network.

[–] JamesHolden@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BitTorrent is alive and well lol, and some of the top tier private sites opened their doors this past year which has been a nice change.

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Still open? Links?

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still miss Audiogalaxy and Songbird. The latter in particular helped me find so much awesome music. Nothing I've seen since comes close.

[–] Pazintach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm missing Audiogalaxy too. Met so many people there who opened my ears.

[–] chaosratt@lemmy.computing.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

usenet for bulk current media, occasionally torrents for niche stuff, but now that rarbg is gone I'm going to have to find a new tracker. I use a seedbox for most torrent activity these days as well, too risky with ISPs clamping down.

Once upon a time I used DC++ for things, but that was more than a decade ago and the last time I tried it all the severs seems to be in eastern eu countries and very shady. If anyone knows a good DC++ server I'd love to hear more.