It's worked well enough for me. Keep in mind this is just for public trackers. Private trackers shouldn't be used with a VPN anyway and you don't need to use i2p for them.
You can cross-seed with people over clearnet using qBittorrent or BiglyBT, but that also exposes your IP to clearnet people. So you could get DMCA notices if it is copywrited content.
Otherwise typically no you will only be downloading and seeding with people on I2P if you haven't chosen to cross-seed.
Exactly how I feel too. It pretty much had to be done.
So I've decided to stop paying for VPNs or Seedboxes recently after the mullvad news. I setup i2p and now just do torrenting exclusively through there. It is private and self-hosted, so no dealing with dmca notices. I believe i2p is the future of torrenting.
I just started a small instance called wizanons.dev if anyone is interested in joining. We're focused on magic and mysticism, especially psychonautics.
Also super friendly and we've yet to ban any instances since we're still small and haven't needed to. We run the "magic" community, which is mostly general for anything magical - fantasy or otherwise anyone wants to post about.
I figured this would be his last one honestly. He's already made it, so to speak.
I use btrfs snapshots and btrbk
btrfs is a great filesystem and btrbk complements it easily. Switching between snapshots is also really easy if something goes wrong and you need to restore.
Archwiki docs for btrfs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Incremental_backup_to_external_drive
Great to have you here Chris. And thanks for creating this wonderful community. Feels like the old web again in some way, which is a good thing.
Oh man I've tried to do this with my cats and they want nothing to do with being under the covers, ever! So cute!!
Yes, it is.
It just works