I spent a few days experimenting with recent open source p2p and anonymizing networks (tor and i2p). I'm impressed the thing still works well. Some networks bec

I spent a few days experimenting with recent open source p2p and anonymizing networks (tor and i2p). I'm impressed the thing still works well. Some networks became much smaller (kad and gnutella2), but given they're distributed/decentralized, they still work. SoulSeek is alive. Tribler allows to find torrents without needing trackers, it also adds a anonymization layer. I2p gives some intuitive names to hidden services while tor has never been so easy and fast to use. On the web, personal blogs and sites, planets and fora still exists. Neocities is incredibly cool. There are a number of alternatives to google and they're constantly improving. We still have IRC and a few newer services like xmpp and matrix. Ad blockers take some time to configure but work well and there are good interfaces for annoying services like youtube and twitter. The bad internet exists mostly for commercial, news sites and streaming services, but there are alternatives and there's enough people using them to keep them alive and sustainable. It is not like the good internet stopped existing, it is more like the bad internet became more popular.