How do you use BiglyBT to discover I2P torrents from different trackers? I tend to just go to postman.i2p and discover torrents there, but I want a way to discover torrents using BiglyBT and I2P. I know that BiglyBT has DHT capabilities, does that work over the I2P network to discover torrents (Perhaps through Swarm Discovery?)
Any seasoned captains out there?
- drwankingstein ( @drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•30 days ago
is i2p even worth it anymore? I checked a while back and it seemed pretty dead. not too many people at all
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English17•30 days ago
What’s with “anymore”? It’s still actively developed, there are regular releases of both the original Java I2P router and the 3rd party C++ router, if you mean that.
If you mean that it lacks content, please do upload there if you have something. If you already have the content on disk, it should only really take effort while you’re just starting to create torrents.
Don’t forget that
- I2P is the only semi-popular mixnet that’s suitable for torrents
- nobody will know it’s you who are uploading, so unless you upload info about yourself or you’re living in an extremely nonfree country (in which case the Java based router will set itself to restricted mode), you can’t really get into trouble for that
- drwankingstein ( @drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•29 days ago
I mean piracy activity wise, it seems fairly head. maybe im just remembering differently since pirating was a bit less popular, but it feels like it was more healthy in the past.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English1•29 days ago
Hmm. I’m new enough that I don’t know past trends, so possibly. How far in the past you mean?
It would be interesting, if there was some kind of metric of activity, to see what effect it had when qbittorrent added support. Unfortunately it’s still very clucky and incomplete, but that’s mostly on libtorrent as I understand. Sometimes I wonder how would it be if it worked better, with DHT support.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English1•29 days ago
Well, tracker2.postman.i2p just told me upon loading it that it’s under heavy load. In the past few days it seems to have a steady 1-2 dozen new torrents a day. The site has statistics but seemingly only for the past day, however this is roughly what I expected, or maybe less.
- drwankingstein ( @drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•29 days ago
Well, tracker2.postman.i2p just told me upon loading it that it’s under heavy load. In the past few days it seems to have a steady 1-2 dozen new torrents a day. The site has statistics but seemingly only for the past day, however this is roughly what I expected, or maybe less.
Im talking more about the total amount of users/swarm size. it didn’t have much list I checked, aside from a couple really popular torrents hitting around maybe 2-3k peers.
It’s still very active. Postman.i2p has new content every day
- ChonkaLoo ( @ChonkaLoo@lemmy.zip ) English4•29 days ago
I’ve tried it. I like the idea of Tor for torrents, you don’t need a VPN to torrent. But found the speeds to be really bad and the content was a fraction of the clearnet trackers. Might check it out again though it’s been a while.
- Todd Bonzalez ( @todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ) English6•29 days ago
I like the idea of Tor for torrents
Stop that! https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/
- Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 ( @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•27 days ago
Shouldn’t it technically be possible to set this up with bitmagnet? Does anyone have experience with that?
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English1•30 days ago
I don’t use biglybt because I don’t have that much RAM. That is, I do have, but fucking windows is fucking aggressive with swapping for some fucking reason.
- pedroapero ( @pedroapero@lemmy.ml ) English4•29 days ago
i2Psnark is an alternative. With a lot less features (and not mentioning the UX)