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well good thing you said to not take this advice because it's not really good.

1. Don't use crypto mixers, a lot of them are scams and their usefullness is up to debate -> instead use monero, the actual private crypto that is used throughout darknet.
2. Don't use VPNs to be anonymous. VPN are useful for a few things: torrenting, browsing on a public wifi and bypassing georestrictions. they are not useful if you want to be anonymous! To be anonymous, use TOR (or i2p) 3.the VM advice is good. alternatively you could use TailsOS which is more user friendly.
3. Don't. Especially if you need to ask how to do it first.

XMPP is safer and lighter anyway

Yeah that is really slow and they didn't say if it was global or a single torrent. 500kbs is slow for one torrent but if 500kbs is all the torrents combined then that is extremely slow

You can configure it on a headless machine and just forward the webui over an SSH tunnel for configiration / monitoring

Also libgen iirc

What kind of speeds are you seeing per torrent and global with a few torrents running? I didn't try torrenting on I2p yet but even with my node on 24/7 even browsing was hella slow ( i was port forwarded too)

Ah I understand about the dHT. There must be a way to find the original source tho right? I'm not sure I agree when you say that the site is as trustable as you. Sites and uploaders are vetted. That's why there's a wiki, if a trusted uploaded includes malware he would be banned, if he isn't banned, the site would be removed from the wiki.

Port forward

Also don't set anonymous mode, it's not useful and gives you worse performance

I don't think we should encourage downloading a magnet link from a random stranger on lemmy, could you link the site or aggregator where you found this?

They probably meant ombi

Ombi*