In its early days IPFS was being pushed as a anti-censorship tool, obviously blocklists/denylists is the opposite of that. But it’s all a moot point, you’re linking to a discussion from 2015. AFAIK denylists were already implemented e.g. https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-content-blocking-for-the-ipfs-stack/
That client still does not support DHT via I2P correct? That’s what their github page says
https://github.com/majestrate/XD
I haven’t bothered trying it since it lacks DHT. For torrenting I2P with DHT I guess people are mainly going to use I2PSnark. (BiglyBT has limited support for I2P DHT but it is clunky and not very usable)
For torrenting I2P without DHT qBittorrent is working well, granted it is still quite new to the I2P scene.
Officially it should work, but I couldn’t get any peers.
Officially it won’t work. It’s impossible for qBittorrent to support DHT via I2P when Libtorrent itself does not support it. qBittorrent along with many other torrent clients are based on Libtorrent.
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/7408
qBittorrent works well enough as long as you’re adding I2P trackers to public torrents you want to find I2P peers with. It’s not great but for now that may be the best solution aside from using I2PSnark (which like you said isn’t that great).
I tend to look towards full blu-ray/remuxes/flac that sort of thing, private trackers are more suited towards that with both p2p groups as well as the general scene groups.
Public torrents work well enough but the release groups that cater to public torrent indexers tend to be in a race to the smallest file possible. Hence you see a ton of “4K” uploads that are tiny for download but are crap for playback beyond a phone screen. Even yify himself knew he wasn’t aiming for quality encodes. But generally speaking there will always be people looking for those type of uploads and public torrents do cater towards that.