after a year or so hiatus I reinstalled i2p on my debian.
I don’t think I’m going to use it much: I enjoyed using it to torrent files and to ask about censorship circumvention, things I now have alternatives to.
why is this network still relevant?
It’s technology like this that I think will become more and more important as governments seek to restrict access to large parts of the internet. UK and Australia are forging ahead in censorship, and the EU is well on their way. The US already does some censorship, as do large parts of Asia and Russia.
No matter the reason given, it’s always about control. So less easily censored technologies will be very useful for anyone that wants the ability to research truth, or at least, alternate points of view.
It’s really not, until it is. I personally see it as a fallback infrastructure for redundency if Tor, VPNs, Bittorrent, etc. go dark. But other than that, no, it doesn’t really serve much of a purpose rn.
Unlike Tor, I think the heavy use of p2p file sharing on the network adds “cover traffic,” making things like correlation attacks harder.
I’m curious what the alternatives to i2p are that you use now?
I wish there were more higher latency anonymous networks (to make correlation attacks harder). katzenpost.network looks interesting, but is just academic right now; all the other stuff in this space is blockchain crap.
btw any of you i2p nerds have a mixed setup with clearnet torrenting + i2p?
how did you set it up and how do you like it?
