GitTorrent vs peerwiki

GitTorrent

A decentralization of GitHub using BitTorrent and Bitcoin (by cjb)

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peerwiki

all of wikipedia on bittorrent (by mafintosh)

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GitTorrent		peerwiki
	Project
2	Mentions	1
4,735	Stars	312
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 6 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

GitTorrent

Posts with mentions or reviews of GitTorrent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024

It exists: https://radicle.xyz, but it doesn't really get used.
I think gittorrent was the right name for the concept, really, hard to beat that. But that one withered on the vine: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2021

Centralized platforms are always going to be like this, easier to start on a decentralized platform than it is to migrate to one
https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...
https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
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peerwiki

Posts with mentions or reviews of peerwiki. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.

Node.js Packages and Resources
106 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2021

peerwiki - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GitTorrent and peerwiki you can also consider the following projects:

ipfs - IPFS implementation in JavaScript

iwebpp.io - Peer or P2P Style Decentralized HTTP and Web Service even behind NAT/Firewall

peercast - torrent-stream + chromecast

BitcoinJS - A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.

Bitcoin - Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

seedshot

dat - :floppy_disk: peer-to-peer sharing & live syncronization of files via command line [ DEPRECATED - More info on active projects and modules at https://dat-ecosystem.org/ ]

skale - High performance distributed data processing engine

stackgl - A node.js-style module system for GLSL! :sparkles:

PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser

turf - A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript and TypeScript