While I'm still generally positive to the email idea, for the last few months I was testing some other potential messaging software that can be used on I2P. For those who want something more than email, I recommend looking into SimpleX Chat. It checks almost all the boxes for the type of messaging s...

To give big picture context, here's the vision within which I thought about this. Imagine the I2P network itself as a foundation. On top of this foundation, there are pillars: The pillar 1 are the pages: the websites. The pillar 2 is being able to share big files reliably: BitTorrent. The pillar 3 i...

I advocated for simple P2P e-mail elsewhere but my idea is simpler. For one, I don't understand why bother with the well-known thing. Here's what I though about: Everyone runs their own mail server. I envision it primarily as a Java I2P plugin that comes by default with the Java I2P client and works...

When you're floodfill you participate in storing LeaseSets (destination addresses basically). Essentially on top of relying bandwidth you also participate in securing network consensus. I believe it requires a bit more CPU and bandwidth. Your bandwidth should be fine, I think you should enable it. A...

I had the same question: Why does I2PSnark allocate the files I want to skip? Isn't that wasteful? It actually doesn't waste any space. Let me explain. I looked at the code and did some testing. Turns out it allocates what's called a sparse file. That's a file filled with all zeroes. Modern, and I u...