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Nanonymous No.10046 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>10054 >>10055
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Will i2p ever becoming popular enough to not suck? The main drawback seems to be lack of mass adoption. You'd think it would be more popular if for no other reason than complete privacy for torrenting.

Nanonymous No.10048 [D]
It should get a nice boost once Monero integrates i2p-zero.

Nanonymous No.10050 [D]
How does I2P suck? It is good as it is now. If it were popular, that would suck.

Nanonymous No.10051 [D]
Its main drawback used to be >java

Nanonymous No.10054 [D]
>>10046
>The main drawback seems to be lack of mass adoption.
Adoption has nothing to do with it, I2P is less popular than Tor because it's slow and is not designed with exit nodes to provide clearnet access.

In the west at least there are basically no consequences for pirating a movie in 3 minutes with clearnet bittorrent so waiting 3 days to download the same torrent over I2P makes no sense.

In countries with harsher regulations against online activity I2P is much more popular, e.g. Russia.

Nanonymous No.10055 [D]
>>10046
Any text or infographic which includes TOR in all caps should be immediately discarded. It means the author hasn't read any of the formal documentation or research publications and has no contact with anyone who has.

Nanonymous No.10056 [D] >>10076
It's slow. I thought the network becomes faster and more efficient the more people use it?

Nanonymous No.10057 [D] >>10059
>10054
>clearnet access
Clearnet internet needs to be abandoned and left to the boomers, much like cable tv.
Nothing would make me happier than never having to touch a clearnet site ever again.

Nanonymous No.10059 [D]
>>10057
>Nothing would make me happier than never having to touch a clearnet site ever again.
I totally and wholeheartedly agree.

Nanonymous No.10061 [D] >>10062 >>10065
I used to connect to and have i2p running 24/7 but almost never actually used it. I found it much less intuitive to use than most other similar applications and always seemed to run in to issues with sites not loading, not working overall, or being unable to find a way to find any kind of content i valued. The built in torrent UI is terrible compared to any half decent dedicated client.

On comparable networks such as Freenet, i found that even with just a few large indexes, it was easy to find interesting content, and go from there. Sure freenet was slow as well, but even with files that aren't available, they can be queried for later, instead of just timing out like on i2p.

If someone implemented a method to route libtorrent over i2p and it was adopted by all torrent clients that utilize libtorrent, i think it would really boost the file sharing community at a minimum. As far as I know, only Vuze and the opensource spinoff of it have i2p support, but i've never been able to figure out how to even get it working, not to mention the clients are not very intuitive out of the box.


Nanonymous No.10062 [D] >>10065
>>10061
>If someone implemented a method to route libtorrent over i2p
Apparently it already supports it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libtorrent#Miscellaneous_features_list

Nanonymous No.10063 [D]
Nice. Now we just need some clients to actually utilize it. Vuze is the only client that had official i2p support as far as I know, and it doesn't even use libtorrent.

Nanonymous No.10065 [D]
>>10061
>>10062
also this:
https://github.com/majestrate/XD/

Nanonymous No.10068 [D]
Is there a stable imule build as well? I've tried it multiple times but all it does is crash.

Nanonymous No.10076 [D] >>10078
>>10056
>the network becomes faster and more efficient the more people use it
And what's your scientific basis for thinking that?
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=ZsYMJWetyYA

Nanonymous No.10078 [D][U][F] >>10079
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>>10076
more people = bigger network = more bandwidth = better speed = becomes faster

Nanonymous No.10079 [D]
>>10078
>more people = bigger network = more bandwidth = better speed = becomes faster
You're thinking of Tor. More Tor nodes = faster network because nodes don't consume bandwidth, only provide it.
I2P nodes contribute and consume bandwidth at the same time so more nodes can make the network faster or slower.

Nanonymous No.10088 [D]
Even if it became more popular, the speed would stay the same. And noone wants to torrent anything at 100kb/s at best, unless it's something really really illegal, e.g. CP

Nanonymous No.10091 [D] >>10211 >>10214
the somewhat innacurate breakdown of i2p population:
- 30% germans
- 25% russians
- 20% feds
- 25% the rest

the choice whether to use it or not is yours

Nanonymous No.10211 [D] >>10214
>>10091
I'd think Russians constitute at least 50% of the population there. Or at least most sites are Russian, even if they don't greet you with Russian text there's usually some hint they actually are Russian

Nanonymous No.10214 [D]
>>10091
>>10211
Order has been this for a few years (not sure of percentage).
1. Ruskies
2. Burgers
3. Krauts
Krauts have insane (((copyright))) laws so they like i2p.

Nanonymous No.10235 [D]
>still no nanochan over i2p