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I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?
IPFS [1] requires a gateway unfortunately (whether remote or running locally). If you can use content idents that are supported by web primitives, you get the distributed nature without IPFS scaffolding required. Content is versioned by hash, although I haven't looked to see if mutable torrents [2] [3] are used in this implementation. Searching via distributed hash tables for torrent metadata, cryptographically signed by the publisher, remains as a requirement imho.

Bittorrent, in my experience, "just works," whether you're relying on a torrent server or a magnet link to join a swarm and retrieve data. So, this is an interesting experiment in the IPFS, torrent, filecoin distributed content space.

[1] https://ipfs.tech/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29920271

[3] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

You don't hear much these days about IPFS, but I can remember one big problem with it was illegal content and how to deal with it.
This is pretty interesting!

I think serving video is a particularly interesting use of Webtorrent. I think it would be good if you could add this as a front end to basically make sites DDOS proof. So you host like a regular site, but with a JS front end that hosts the site P2P the more traffic there is.

Fun! I wish WebTorrent had caught on more. I've always thought it had a worthy place in the modern P2P conversation.

In 2020, I messed around with a PoC for what hosting and distributing Linux distros could look like using WebTorrent[1]. The protocol project as a whole has a lovely and brilliant design but has stayed mostly stagnant in recent years. There are only a couple of WebRTC-enabled torrent trackers that have remained active and stable.

1. https://github.com/leoherzog/LinuxExchange

Was there ever a web-based Jigdo?
This was a fun rabbit hole. Thanks for educating me!
In its own reimagined way from what’s possible in 2026, this could kick off a new kind of geocities.
This is cool - I actually worked on something similar way back in the day: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext. It avoided the need to have any kind of intermediary website entirely.

The cool thing was it worked at the browser level using experimental libdweb support, though that has unfortunately since been abandoned. You could literally load URLs like wtp://tomjwatson.com/blog directly in your browser.

What were your plans for advertising website updates? Classic RSS feed or something else?
I think one of the values of (what appears to be) AI generated projects like this is that they can make me aware of the underlying technology that I might not have heard about - for example WebTorrent: https://webtorrent.io/faq

Pretty cool! Not sure what this offers over WebTorrent itself, but I was happy to learn about its existence.

Nice, I clicked on the first demo, and I got stuck at connecting with peers.

I like the idea though.

None of the demo sites work for me.

Probably needs more testing and debugging.

Good, important idea. Unfortunately bad, low effort vibe coded execution
Still a shipped idea, driven by someone. The author has some other interesting ideas.
does it matter if it shipped if no one uses it?
OT: Can someone vibe-code Geocities back to life?
I can't imagine that Peerweb has much in the way of stopping certain types of material from being uploaded.
you can't stop someone from verbally describing certain objectionable material, therefore we should regulate the medium thru which sound travels and suck up all the oxygen on the planet. it's the only way to save the children
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Smaller site likely have a smaller footprint
i wish stuff like this was more like double-click, agree, and use. they always make it complicated to where you're spending time trying to understand if you should continue to spend more time on this.
Useless if it takes > 5 sec. to load a page
Similar project I vibe coded a few weeks ago: "Gnutella/Limewire but WebRTC".

https://github.com/RickCarlino/hazelhop

It works, though probably needs some cleanup and security review before being used seriously (thus no running public instance).

I feel like if it were combined with federated caching servers it would actually work. Then you would have persistence and the p2p part helps take load off popular content. There are now P2P databases that seem to operate with this. Combining the best of both worlds.
What do you all think of the chances that we have decentralized AI infrastructure like this at some point?
Somebody has to revive Nullsoft WASTE p2p from 2003 tho
Every time I try these they never work, including this one.

I’m not sure what the value prop is over just using a torrent client?

Maybe when they’re less buggy they’ll become a thing.

I wonder if these colors are a kind of a watermark that are hardcoded as system instructions. Almost all slopware made using claude have the same color palette. So much for a random token generator to be this consistent
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