webcat vs GitTorrent

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Mad science p2p pipe across the web using webrtc that uses your Github private/public key for authentication and a signalhub for discovery (by mafintosh)

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

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webcat		GitTorrent
	Project
1	Mentions	2
440	Stars	4,745
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 4 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.

webcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of webcat. 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

webcat - p2p pipe across the web using WebRTC that uses your GitHub private/public key for authentication.

GitTorrent

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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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What are some alternatives?

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

webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

ipfs - IPFS implementation in JavaScript

NodeOS - Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace

peercast - torrent-stream + chromecast

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Bitcoin - Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (network) library for visualisation and analysis

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/ ]

js-git - A JavaScript implementation of Git.

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

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

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