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Me over here trying to figure out how to get i2p running in qbittorrent so I don't need a VPN anymore.
Thats not exactly how that works. You can only connect to people seeding on i2p network. You can't just connect to clearnet seeders from i2p
Its good that qbitt added support for it but torrenting over i2p is not new, i2psnark is built into java version and biglybt has supported i2p for years. The issue is that most seeders dont cross-seed.
Also if the guide on reddit is still going to need a vpn. Look at step 26, you are uploading to clearnet.
In order to not use a vpn you need to only connect via i2p and you are then severely limited in your use.
I would suggest just grabbing the info hash of a clearnet torrent and pasting it into i2psnark to see if it exists on i2p. If it does great! And seed that shit (you won't need a vpn to do that) but i2p will definitely not completely replace clearnet torrenting
I didn't want to connect to clearnet folks. I2P only mode in qbittorrent. I just prefer qbittorrent as opposed to i2psnark. Obviously the issue is adoption and availability of torrents on i2p. I'll continue to seed new stuff on there very often though. Maybe even see if I can get RSS setup on qbittorrent for i2p as well for automatic downloading/seeding.
I see. Hopefully this drives adoption