Wrong. Annas Archive doesn’t Accept Uploads directly themselves (at least <10.000), and they recommend STC too.

To upload academic papers, please also (in addition to Library Genesis) upload to STC Nexus. They are the best shadow library for new papers.

https://annas-archive.org/faq

It’s possible, but Not necessary. The Plugin includes a client

But they include it, as I’ve written it 🙄

(They pool multiple shadow libraries)

BiglyBT includes an embedded I2P-Client

There are already Torrents with the raw data and they’ve used IPFS in the past, but decided it was not ready https://annas-archive.org/torrents (They pool multiple shadow libraries)