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As of 2025 the P2P System Tixati has full I2P support.

How to configure it for use with I2P: https://support.tixati.com/i2p

Full changelog here: https://tixati.com/news

Sadly not OSS, so "Caveat Emptor".

Edit: Forgot that it's 2026 now.

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[–] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Edit: I confused Tixati and Fopnu, another p2p tool by the same dev when I made this comment.
Hmm. Reading the support page, it looks like there is no actual integration with i2p in the Tixati client itself. It looks more like an existing i2p client can function as a proxy, allowing Tixati clients to communicate over i2p. Similar to how a socks proxy allows Tixati to function over any remote network, like say a vpn.

Not un-useful, but the number of Tixati users is already limited on the open internet (and heavily slanted towards certain unsavoury interests). Finding other Tixati users on i2p just limits your potential peer group further. Mixing open internet connectivity with i2p connectivity also seems like a de-anonymization vector waiting to strike.

i2p would certainly benefit from a well designed easy to understand file sharing tool like Tixati. Specifically its focus on keeping libraries of files shared for longer periods, rather than the short-term burstiness of torrents, would be a good fit. But I would want it to be significantly locked down to the i2p network, and get some code reviews, before trusting it.

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not un-useful, but the number of Tixati users is already limited on the open internet (and heavily slanted towards certain unsavoury interests). Finding other Tixati users on i2p just limits your potential peer group further.

To be fair Tixati is a bittorrent client using the same standard bittorrent protocol that other clients use. So it will connect to bittorrent swarms, peers, trackers, etc. just like any other I2P bittorrent client. So Tixati users will connect to I2P bittorrent peers using I2PSnark, XD, qBittorrent, and BiglyBT. (and any others I missed)

The big limitation is that there are less bittorrent peers on the I2P network vs the clearnet internet.. it's a big difference. It'll probably stay that way until there's more people keeping torrents active within I2P, hopefully in the future.

Other minor limitation is that I2PSnark (& and maybe Tixati) are the only bittorrent clients that can use the bittorrent DHT within I2P, all the other bittorrent clients can only find peers using bittorrent trackers. It's not a big deal as long as people remember to add I2P trackers to their torrents but it does make things less decentralized. Tixati does claim I2P DHT support but I'm not sure how well it works in practice.

[–] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're right. I confused Tixati with Fopnu, another p2p tool by the same developer. Fopnu is the one with the library of files model, which I feel would be a good model for i2p. Just putting Tixati on i2p does nothing new.

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Ah true, Fopnu is his other non-bittorrent p2p app. In some ways Fopnu is the spiritual successor to WinMX. It is clearnet only so it's a bit outside the scope of I2P.

The same dev did also create DarkMX (https://darkmx.app/) which was Tor only up until more recently when he added I2P support around the same time frame he was adding I2P to Tixati. DarkMX (IMO) seems more interesting for I2P users since it was designed from the beginning to work within darknets. Haven't had a chance to play around with it so can't say that it has much of a user base but could be worth a look.