Nope, and it's awesome. I2P works similarly to tor except instead of being discouraged, there's a torrent client built in. Only down side is as it's an entirely P2P network with alot of hops (more than tor) it's quite slow.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we use a classic torrent client such as transmission instead of the built in client? What about the Soulseek network over IP2 with an open-source client such as Nicotine? Thank you.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think there's a soulseek i2p. As for regular torrent clients there are a few. BiglyBT, Transmission-i2p (abandoned but functional), XD, libtorrent - if you're a programmer, qtorrent etc.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the clarification.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My pleasure.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's slow. Fundamentally to send a packet of data to someone you need to know where to send it.

So there are two options:

Maintain a trust network for allowed peers who you can guarantee won't snitch - like private trackers, and then use direct connections freely
Send it via intermediaries who don't give a shit about being exposed (e.g. VPN services, or i2p out proxies)

But with the intermediaries approach your speed will always be bottlenecked by the slowest of the intermediaries.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

No, it works well but the downside as mentioned below is speed. I've seen speeds in the MBit range, but that's very rare. Usually around 300-500 kBits for me.

Perhaps BiglyBT is faster? I don't know. I only use the one built in.