Could you add a block about I2P in general?
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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I had never heard of it! Thx for the tip
I'm looking up I2P vs VPN and people are saying that I2P cannot replace VPN but I fail to understand why. Can I get some more insight to that?
I think the only use-case maybe not covered is finding torrents that aren't uploaded to the I2P tracker yet. They need to be cross-seeded from people who originally uploaded them or from people downloading them from the clearnet to be available.
An example of this is anime. There is significantly less anime available on i2p currently than there are on sites like nyaa.si. People can cross-seed these torrents to make them available on i2p. I do that, for instance. But other than that I can't think of any other use case that isn't covered.
I2p is a closed network where everyone participates and using cryptography packets are encrypted so so only the destination can reason them. All packets are sent through short lived tunnels which are connections of various nodes in the network that change at every so often.
You traffic never hits the main internet. Its a full darknet with a torrent network system , email, websites, private encrypted messaging and more built on top of it.
So they are all encrypted. Nobody knows the IP of anyone else
I just changed to AirVPN.
Some alternatives I considered: using i2p (but was unaware of the tracker you mentioned) and exploring a fancy VPN called Orchid because it seemed fancy, but gave up on the last two.
I'll try again i2p to share my Ubuntu ISO.
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Interesting stuff, I had heard of i2p before, but mostly in connection with darknet and not yet with torrenting, but it‘s something I might play around with now that I know.
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I have never used i2p but isn't it pretty slow? I only have experience with Tor and it's not recommended to torrent through Tor. I did listen to the interviews of both Tor and i2p on a Privacy podcast but it was a while back
It's one of those things that gets faster the longer I2P software is running. As I understand it, it takes time to building link betoween yourself and other members of the network in a safe and secure way, but once they're built up that extends your reach and speed
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Has anyone tried to use this with Docker and Raspberry Pi? It doesn't appear to work for me:
i2p_1 | standard_init_linux.go:219: exec user process caused: no such file or directory
which I think is probably an architecture error. I saw somewhere on Reddit someone was working on an Arm64 docker, but can't find the post now.
That usually means that the image you used isn't built for arm I think. If you used an arm image idk tho
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I'll read up on this. It's new for me and thr first time hearing of it, but we should always consider working alternatives
Can you port forward with i2p?
Yes. When you setup I2P, if you are on a home router with NAT, you setup port forwarding for I2P to get through. I believe it supports UPnP as well, which would circumvent this need.
You don't need to configure anything else for being connectable from the wider network. The torrent clients remain connectable allowing you to easily seed.