This is a little guide to show you how to setup a small container dedicated to an i2p router such as i2pd. This allows for a central router for all your clients on your LAN for example....
What @supervent said. Basically you get access to the I2P network (overlay on top of the regular internet) that provides anonymity and doesn’t require any port forwarding. Thus, this allows every user to seed torrents without worrying about opening ports or getting letters in the mail.
The torrent space on I2P is still growing, there are some chads cross-seeding to the I2P network allowing for torrenting popular torrents over I2P.
That is the lacking area. There needs to be a development in the area of DHT crawlers and indexers to help find torrents on I2P like how btdigg works, but for I2P torrents. Hopefully one day.
Yes, absolutely. I have a VPS that runs a i2pd router and I can set my clients to point to my VPS and I am able to use the I2P network. In doing so, I had to make sure I forwarded the correct ports on my VPS so that it would reach the i2pd application. I will do a write up soon.
Yes, I did exactly this when I2P support was first in beta. I have a docker stack with Gluetun as my network for all my *arr containers and I was able to still point my qBittorrent to my i2pd router and it worked just fine.
It is experimental indeed. While it “works”, it is no where near the reliability and efficiency of other I2P torrent clients like I2Psnark or BiglyBT, both of which are Java based.
What I mean is if I create a new torrent of Big Buck Bunny with a InfoHash of b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184 for example, no one will find my torrent by searching for “Big Buck Bunny”. Unless I post this hash somewhere, advertising “Hey, this torrent is Big Buck Bunny” like what 1337x and other torrent sites do, you won’t “find” it. Basically, we have to use a torrent indexer like tracker2.postman.i2p to search the metadata and find torrents we want. If that makes sense.
Made a simple Hugo site to host a bunch of articles and posts related to I2P, all in one place. All posts have been translated to English. There are a lot of a good articles on the inner workings of I2P and can help understand I2P better....
Good article on how to set up and use Syncthing over I2P for a truly decentralized sync. Helps work around NAT issues and provides good privacy benefits....
Seems like almost all .i2p sites I see is dead, I think links are dead but b32 ones still work. Is there a maintained repo/site/index with well structured info?...
notbob.i2p and identiguy.i2p have been my go to as they provide uptime stats and show the reliability of that eepsite. Seems like many people set up a registered eepsite just for testing or the short-term and don’t intend for longevity, but you can find some eepsites with normal names like “git.idk.i2p” and assume it will have better uptime.
[GUIDE] How to Setup i2pd on Alpine Linux Container (LXC) in Proxmox (strict3443.codeberg.page)
This is a little guide to show you how to setup a small container dedicated to an i2p router such as i2pd. This allows for a central router for all your clients on your LAN for example....
[GUIDE] How to Use I2P on qBittorrent-nox v4.6.0 (strict3443.codeberg.page)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6915117...
qBittorrent 4.6 launches with I2P support - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
[GUIDE] How to connect to IRC on I2P (strict3443.codeberg.page)
Guide: …codeberg.page/…/how_to_connect_to_irc_on_i2p/...
[GUIDE] How to use Matrix in I2P on Android (strict3443.codeberg.page)
Matrix Homeserver: http://matrix-im.i2p
I2P Article/Posts Archive (strict3443.codeberg.page)
Made a simple Hugo site to host a bunch of articles and posts related to I2P, all in one place. All posts have been translated to English. There are a lot of a good articles on the inner workings of I2P and can help understand I2P better....
I2P - Protocol of Invisible Internet. How the best anonymity network works (piped.video)
Great video by acetone on how the I2P network works....
x25519 for Encrypted LeaseSets | Host Hidden + Encrypted Services! (codeberg.org)
Python implementation of the PurpleI2P x25519 code from github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd-tools/…/x25519.cpp...
Syncthing over I2P | By Chris barry (barry.im)
Good article on how to set up and use Syncthing over I2P for a truly decentralized sync. Helps work around NAT issues and provides good privacy benefits....
i2pd v2.49.0 Released (github.com)
i2pd...
[GUIDE] I2PSnark in Docker (+i2pd) (codeberg.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4949747...
[GUIDE] qBittorrent w/ I2P Support in Docker (codeberg.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4912475...
Where to find i2p sites
Seems like almost all .i2p sites I see is dead, I think links are dead but b32 ones still work. Is there a maintained repo/site/index with well structured info?...