there is 0% risk until your country makes a law that prohibits any and all P2P communication. That would not only break torrents, but would thwart signal/telegram/whatsapp calls too, Jitsi meetings, probably google meet and zoom too, as all those use P2P traffic for performance.

So far there are only such laws in far east countries, and the official java I2P router is smart enough to not participate in routing when you are in such a place.
Also, I think for routing to work you need to open a port, without it that won’t be done.

as a node

• you are unable to see the contents of traffic you route thanks to layered encryption
• you wont be routing traffic to the internet (unless you specifically set it up), but only to other I2P routers

I know nothing about seedboxes, but on a computer you can point multiple torrents to the same directory. If you make it read-only, by permission or mount options or whatever, the torrent client can’t even fuck it up

it wasn’t abandoned, they are developing an overhaul with a more efficient sync API that required them to rethink how it works internally

there are moderation abilities, but instead of all-seeing global moderators it must be done by the little poor room owner, and the mods they have granted permission.

if the existing owner/mods don’t do that, and disgusting content starts appearing in the room, that means they probably aren’t active anymore, and that it’s time to make a new room with the still active members before something even more damaging happens, like an uncontrollable high volume spammer, at which point you won’t be able to tell the others that you have made a new room.

why do we call standards open when they require people to pay for access to the documents? to me that does not sound open at all

didn’t google include jpeg-xl support already in developer versions of chromium, just to remove it later?

well, then just consider those giving shitty support for it as if they wouldn’t be supporting it at all

It kinda gets different when you’re talking about a series of actors intermingling in an environment designed by the seller.

I think that gets problematic. We are very often “intermingling in an environment designed by the seller” for agood reason, which should not be denied. Let’s have a look at websites: changing the style, tracker and adblocking (or even just blocking all the scripts), … I want to be able to do the same with any other program I run, like I take steps on my Android phone to thwart apps tracking me when I can’t find a better, open source alternative, but if a judge would use your argument, they would probably say that even using firewall software to deny network connections to the program is unlawful.

I don’t agree with cheaters using aimbots, wallhacks and whatnot, but it’s because it directly destroys the experience of other players.

All I can think of about “the scene” is game/software crackers. Do you mean that? And the music in their installers and cracktros.
Probably not, though, these are often embedded in the program executable.

Is there a peak for this? I feel like subscriptions are becoming more of a rule than an exception. Having the ability to directly purchase digital goods seems more like a thing of the past.

You may have heard the saying: “you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”. Maybe there’s some real agenda supporting this way of life for us peasants, and this is the manifestation of it.

Several of them could be ran over there, including Matrix.

Probably there are already some chat services. notbob.i2p should list them if so.

Probably not, but discord is far worse. Not in functionality, before you say, but in everything else. While it’s questionable whether telegram is private in any level, with discord that’s not a question at all.

What encryption keys?

There is, they added plugin support. See my top level comment for details

I don’t think a fork will solve anything. I’m pretty sure the reason they did this is to cover their asses (don’t forget that it was very near to being taken down just a few years ago).

Further, yt-dlp has implemented plugin support, for this exact reason. I think that’s a new feature compared to youtube-dl. You can add your own extractors as plugins, wherever you find them. As I remember there are a few plugins that are even maintained by a yt-dlp maintainer.

If you find this to be ok or better, please consider changing the title to let those know about what’s happening who have already read the post, because they wouldn’t know it otherwise.

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.

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.

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.

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