Not the 5 years old post 💀

But really, are things still that dire?

Also I am told by IPFS evangelists that their DHT is not really a DHT and has fixed the biggest problems DHTs have… and yet back when I tried IPFS it behaved very much like you described, meanwhile the humble torrent magnets have not failed me even once so yeah, what the hell?

And this may be offtopic but don’t you think p2p apps could be better designed if they were drop clearnet support entirely to leverage some intrinsic property of spanning tree meshnets such as FIPS and Yggdrasil?