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What is I2P?

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What is the point of using I2P?

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

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  • Over 7,000 unique websites to visit
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  • Free fully private Email address
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  • Private IRCs
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  • Fully decentralization
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  • Advanced userbase
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  • Faster than the Tor and freenet +Overall, I2P offers a lot to you and has an amazing community of friendly people.
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My experience

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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:

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ssh -fTNL 4444:127.0.0.1:4444 -L 7070:127.0.0.1:7070

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

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Here are a few websites I do like:

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Conclusion

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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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