Considering the recent happenings of Tumblr and booru.org purges, it is important to put focus on alternative decentralization libraries.
1. free P2P software
a. BitTorrent - Most commonly used, but can't handle individual files
b. WebTorrent - WebRTC version of BitTorrent, but still have the same issue
c. eDonkey and GNUtella - both very obscure, not really useful or adaptive
d. IPFS - currently used in Hydrus, can handle singular files in a folder structure
2. Proxies and psuedo-VPNs
a. TOR - very common, maybe pozzed by CIA, has BitTorrent and IPFS compatibility (OpenBazaar)
b. I2P - less common, not pozzeed, has BitTorrent compatibility, IPFS is in the works (go-i2p)
c. Freenet and Retroshare - both very uncommon, has file transferring and chats as a primitive
d. Zeronet - pretty dead, works with Javascript, too many unknowns
3. Blockchain data solutions (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_storage_cloud)
a. Filecoin - based in IPFS, slowly developing, could be used in conjunction with Hydrus
b. Sia - top data blockchain contender, has smart contracts with regular renewal for storage (
https://sia.tech/)
c. MaidSafe - possible competition, includes secure communication and storage (
https://maidsafe.net/)
d. Storj - noted, already have average pricing, made to be used along side self-host cloud (
https://storj.io/)
e. Ethereum Swarm - note really a good idea as the blockchain is congested by CryptoCats
f. Others include
https://decent.ch/ https://www.creativechain.org/ https://contentbox.one/ https://noia.network/
Others:
https://cryptoslate.com/category/cryptos/storage/