I'm playing with Twisted (a P2P twitter clone). It's a very cool idea, but it's slow to download the initial block chain (tweets are text!)
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Neither Spotify nor Skype use peer to peer functionality any more.
Are there any consumer apps that still leverage P2P designs? Has bandwidth just become so cheap that it's unnecessary?
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Hosting a Docker registry on IPFS! The global P2P content-addressable filesystem seems like a good fit for Docker images.
Scuttlebot is a P2P replicating datastore designed to facilitate decentralised applications: https://scuttlebot.io/
The list of available apps is impressive for a young project: https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-handbook/blob/master/applications.md
The apps remind me of IPFS' ambitions, although the protocol is different.