Trying out I2P 🕵️

Date: 22-09-2024

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What is I2P?

I2P stands for "The Invisible Internet Project" and it is a totally private and encrypted private network layer. If you have ever heard of or used the Tor project, it is similar, but the I2P network is more secure and faster.

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What is the point of using I2P?

This is a good question. Why should you or I even use I2P? The answer is simple: it offers many interesting things, for example:

Over 7,000 unique websites to visit
Free fully private Email address
Private IRCs
Fully decentralization
Advanced userbase
Faster than the Tor and freenet

Overall, I2P offers a lot to you and has an amazing community of friendly people.

My experience

Hosting on home server

I installed i2pd onto my home server. I chose i2pd because it is written in C, making it faster than the normal I2P package.

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After installing and starting up i2pd with Systemd, I had to forward the ports on my local network so that I could use I2P. This can be done by running a simple command:

ssh -fTNL 4444:127.0.0.1:4444 -L 7070:127.0.0.1:7070 <username>

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I would strongly suggest using Librewolf to look through the I2P network.

Here are a few websites I do like:

http://notbob.i2p/
http://ramble.i2p/

Most of the websites on I2P are personal sites, and I highly suggest using NotBob to look for them because some of them are really cool.

Last thoughts

Most of the websites on I2P are personal sites. I highly suggest using NotBob to look for them because some of them are really cool.

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