While Tor falters under surveillance and clearnet compromises, I2P quietly matures into a resilient, decentralized network—an enclave for the privacy-obsessed, the politically vulnerable, and the tech
It’s not required but default on. there’s a setting for it, but also if it detects from your IP that you are in a risky country, it’ll not enable the functionality to bridge other traffic
That is correct. i2p is designed such that peers are expected (required?) to share some bandwidth to be on the network.Of course, that bandwidth stays in-network (unlike Tor which supports “exit nodes”) so it is less risky to share.
Edit: I’m totally wrong, oops
https://lemmy.zip/comment/20881225
It’s not required but default on. there’s a setting for it, but also if it detects from your IP that you are in a risky country, it’ll not enable the functionality to bridge other traffic