I believe it was this issue that made me think this way
Use Spotube instead, it’s open source
Just went on instamod.net, filled with malware ads popping everywhere on my screen
I’m currently using Distraction Free Instagram which allowed me to disable the explore and reels tabs. Also appears to block ads. Sadly not open-source
And then you index it on a peer-to-peer search engine
Yes it allows searching for individual pages. Everyone can publish and index whatever files they want. However, they won’t appear under a domain name without being added by the domain name owner. Domain name are just for humans to read though, they are not required by ipfs and admarus. Nothing prevents you from cloning a website, modifying it, and publishing it under another domain or without a domain. Content published on IPFS is immutable and lives as long as someone has it. That means many revisions of a website can exist at the same time. Domain name are practical because they are made to always point to the latest revision.
No one can dictate what can be indexed. However, ranking takes popularity into account, so that spam and unwanted content doesn’t rank high
Sorry to stop your wondering, but I have an answer: yes. I created a peer-to-peer protocol for scalable, advanced and decentralized search engines. On top of this protocol, I created Admarus, a decentralized search engine for IPFS. If someone published a distributed torrent website on IPFS, it could get indexed on Admarus and could never be banned
Apparently libgen.rs is down
Edit: It’s back up