Can we have a thread about anonymous (so no cjdns, no IPFS and no retroshare) distributed networks for the purpose of file sharing and shitposting?
Primarly made for and used as a proxy to the clearnet; the network is saturated by this. The client is written in C with some welcome security features like sandboxing. Supposedly better than Tor, has a fork of the bittorrent protocol as filesharing. Sadly, the main implementation is a JavaPD implementation that includes everything possible. Fortunately, there's i2pd, an actively developped C++ implementation and XD, a Go torrent application for it. It's still rough around the edges but progressing fast. Don't know anything about it, except that there are some papers supporting it and the userbase is extremely tiny for now. Has filesharing builtin and an optional GTK+ GUI. It looks like its website got a facelift recently, maybe we'll see more development. Made by some guys including some i2pd devs because they're fed up with i2p and monero. Supposed to cure cancer and all.
For now, I think i2p is the way to go as far as anonymous filesharing goes. Any further opinions?
I don't think so. It's proven that even though a lot of pedo sites are onion sites, most pedos share files on clearnet and some don't even use Tor.
Jackson Barnes
It's all fucked. Tor is compromised because a powerful government agency can simply take control of a bunch of nodes and see what you are connecting to, although the traffic itself is encrypted it doesn't help if you are looking at some hot shit. Freenet has been compromised a few years ago when the police figured out a way to see what node is downloading what. GnuNET, i2p and everything else don't have enough users to make it something actually usable.
Hudson Hernandez
i2p has a lot more users than GNUnet, you can't put them in the same category.
Oliver Parker
Though the fact, Tor is the safest way to share pedophila contents.
I2P has users more than one hundred times than GNUnet's.
