I found I2P much better than Tor network, and now it supports BitTorrent protocol too https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent .

Why haven’t the pirates migrated to I2P? Why are we still using clearnet and making people backout of seeding cause of DMCA?

  • indirect_existence@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    i’ve messed around with i2p, it requires much more technical knowledge than just torrenting and there’s a bit of a learning curve to navigating and configuring it. plus it honestly hasn’t changed much in years, and i’m not sure how much i trust the developers working on it. i do agree that it’s better than tor though

    • Toribor@corndog.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Tor was really struggling and I wasn’t looking forward to learning how to use something else safely. I2P was such a massively huge improvement at least for my use case.

    • idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. Even getting support over an issue (initially) was troublesome. But somehow I ended up solving it through other channels. But just like torrenting, or any other tech, once you get enough experience to solve issues on your own, things get a bit easy.

      A tech being easy to grasp can be an issue too, leading to more script kitties messing in with the protocol.

    • idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Can you trust Tor or VPN? Tor was developed with the help of US intelligence to help build a anonymous network.

      • Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Read all of the source and research who hosts the relays to determine their trustworthiness. Decide for yourself

        • idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s great. But not everyone is interested learning and setting up their own VPS. If it was trivial no VPN service would be in business.