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by fsflover 1833 days ago
Not sure why it's not adopted more widely. It's in constant development and is impressive.
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iainmerrick 1832 days ago
I hadn’t heard of I2P -- sounds like it’s similar to Freenet? (originally forked from it, Wikipedia says)

Can it be used as a CDN for a normal website? How well does it perform?

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fsflover 1832 days ago
> sounds like it’s similar to Freenet?

https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/freenet

> Can it be used as a CDN for a normal website?

No. It's an independent overlay network designed to give anonymity.

> How well does it perform?

It's slow in comparison to the clearnet, but usable for basic things, including torrents (~100+ KB/s speeds).

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iainmerrick 1832 days ago
Hmm, the original comment was:

A web filled with DDOS attacks and scraping is a web that needs cloudflare and fastly. I’m not sure how to avoid this sorry state of things.

I2P doesn’t seem like an immediate solution -- maybe it can resist DDOS, but at the cost of losing fast, easily-accessible, easily-searchable public websites, no? Could Starbucks host their website on I2P, to pick a random example? Seems like a bunch more infrastructure would be needed first.

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fsflover 1832 days ago
I2P is simply an alternative web. Yes, it's slower, but everything else works in the same way as in the clearnet. You have readable names of the websites, you have search engines there. It looks like the web from the 90s.

> Could Starbucks host their website on I2P, to pick a random example?

Yes, they definitely can. Which additional infrastructure is needed? I tried to host websites there myself. Did not see any problems.

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