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I don't know about IPFS, but ZeroNet (another distributed internet project) has a couple.

ZeroNet really is the perfect platform for this. Web-based, users can submit content, entirely p2p, very nice UI. It's the perfect platform, but nobody knows about it.

If you're interested, you can download and check it out here: https://zeronet.io

You can also check it out without installing anything by visiting my proxy: https://zn.amorgan.xyz

Play is one such ZeroNet site for movies: http://localhost:43110/zeroplay.bit https://zn.amorgan.xyz/zeroplay.bit

Funnily enough TorrentFreak is mirrored on ZeroNet: http://localhost:43110/1JNqdTGVATFWRLzzYwVu19CuWYus5VmoUS/ https://zn.amorgan.xyz/1JNqdTGVATFWRLzzYwVu19CuWYus5VmoUS/

And a wiki if you're interested in learning more: http://localhost:43110/138R53t3ZW7KDfSfxVpWUsMXgwUnsDNXLP/ https://zn.amorgan.xyz/138R53t3ZW7KDfSfxVpWUsMXgwUnsDNXLP/

And you should probably get the nopelist as a blacklist on your zeronet...Fucking Pedophiles ruining everything anonymous...

Which nopelist?

From the FAQ

> It's no more anonymous than BitTorrent, but privacy (the possibility to find out who is the owner of the comment/site) will increase as the network and the sites gains more peers.

I think users are much better off using something anonymous out of the box like I2P which has simple out of box support for downloading torrents anonymously.

It has Tor integration out of the box (obviously I haven't audited it, but in theory that's enough).

Don't use Tor for torrenting! [1] The network is not meant for providing fast downloads, it's there for providing anonymity. There is no reason to effectively DoS the network and get crappy speeds when you can simply pay a few bucks a month for a VPN that supports port forwarding.

1. https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...

Not for torrenting, for accessing/delivering ZeroNet sites over. (i.e. connecting to the torrent tracker to get the magnet in the first place).

Yeah no torrenting is done over Tor here :) It's worth mentioning that ever since ZeroNet gained its BigFiles plugin, you can directly stream and watch the videos on ZeroNet. Just that nobody has made a nice interface for it yet.

There's sites like [KopyKate](https://zn.amorgan.xyz/big.kopykate.bit/), but they've sort of fallen downhill as the dev has stopped updating it.

ZeroNet's UI is surprisingly excellent. It feels extremely polished and has numerous applications already. It should be much more popular than it is. I'm afraid I don't know much about how anonymous it is, though.

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