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Seems like a waste of effort to standardize to something that's becoming less effective.
But it isn't like I can stop you or have a better suggestion. 😅
What makes you say it's becoming less effective?
Less and less endpoints, cloudflare blocking nodes.
And owning all the ones they aren't blocking.
And people say "but the US government isn't blocking Tor!". Feds'd need a bunch of new lies to get around the First Amendment if they openly banned it, plus then various agencies wouldn't be able to use it themselves.
Tor still has more exit nodes than any commercial VPN. Its just that half of them are run by script kiddies trying to downgrade your HTTPS and/or fake certificates, poorly. Ctrl-shift-L fixes this, but its a pain.
Tor Hidden Services fix this better, because then the circuit doesn't need an exit.
Some Nostr relays offer Hidden Services already! All should.
I really should look at tor more...
we need some good billionaires to fund some non-profits with the mission to add thousands of relays, nodes, onion sites, exits, miners, pools, community meshes, for tor, bitcoin, and nostr, among others, something like that
That makes them failure points; not truly distributed.
Plebs need to do it.
