YaCy might fit your bill: https://yacy.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines. In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Here you go: distributed, peer-to-peer, FLOSS search engine: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

> Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... Here you go: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Https://libremesh.org/ is interesting, but it only really works if the devices is close enough to each other and either way, you will need a gateway to the rest of the internet. Source: over 2 years ago

Few routers are supported and widespread ad-hoc mesh networking remains mostly a pipe dream at this point. You can find a few attempts to do what you're asking for such as commotion and libremesh but they are just attempts and require significant planning put into the layout and configuration of the network which largely defeats your reason for wanting mesh networking. Like I said, there is little router support... Source: over 2 years ago

Today I head about mesh networks (https://libremesh.org/ or https://librerouter.org/) in a comment on r/ipfs. Source: about 3 years ago

IPFS is a solution on the software side for hardware check out https://libremesh.org/ or https://librerouter.org/. Source: over 3 years ago