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Just a PSA that I2P exists if you want to try out anonymous torrenting. Head over to I2P for questions on how to set it up.

We won’t answer questions that could get us into legal trouble, but I’d be happy to help with more generic I2P things.

There's also a guide on how to use I2P together with BiglyBT for example

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[–] pasci_lei@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

@CAVOK Anonymous torrenting? Is this a fever dream?

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

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.

@nivenkos
Not necessarelly. There is also the option to increase the number of concurrent connection. This may have some negative side effect on anonymisity, but probably not enought that it should be a source of worry for torrenting (as there are multiple connection at a time, via different server).

Actually, triber is onion routing made specifically for torrent. And it works pretty well.
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