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[–] Strict3443@lemmy.ml [S] 8 points 2 years ago

The I2P network thanks you.

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[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What are the advantages of doing so and how does it differ from vanilla setup?

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[–] Strict3443@lemmy.ml [S] 19 points 2 years ago

What @supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

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[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

No need of a VPN or pay anything to protect yourself.

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[–] ninchuka@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If you can find the torrents you want on I2P, it's sadly alot smaller then clearnet for torrents currently

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[–] Strict3443@lemmy.ml [S] 8 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does anyone know if it’s possible to setup I2P on a local server and then point to that, when setting up the proxy settings in Firefox from your PC?

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[–] Strict3443@lemmy.ml [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Thanks, that sounds awesome. This would also allow me to run I2P 24/7, helping the network, instead of having my PC run all the time.

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[–] Strict3443@lemmy.ml [S] 2 points 2 years ago

Here is an ansible role you can use to deploy i2pd to linux servers and such: https://codeberg.org/systemfailure.net/ansible_i2pd. Otherwise, on most distros the i2pd package should be able to be installed from the package managers in the terminal.

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[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 years ago

It should be perfectly doable. The only difference is that the server in on the local network (e.g. 192.168.1.101) instead of localhost (127.0.0.1). You might need to configure your OS firewall to let traffic through.

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Question: Can I keep it connected to some VPN layer like gluetun, and still make I2P work? Ideally, it should route all the clearnet traffic through gluetun and the I2P traffic through i2pd.

From the instructions, it looks like it should be possible, just confirming.

[–] Strict3443@lemmy.ml [S] 7 points 2 years ago

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.