> And as others have pointed out, Tor wouldn't scale if everyone was using it. Contrast this with I2P which not only would scale but become more resistant to DDOS attacks with the more nodes on the network.
One objection a lot of people in this thread have to using Tor is the (misconception) that they'll be relaying Tor traffic. (It doesn't work this way in Tor.) But what you're saying is that i2p will scale because this is the default behavior in i2p. But is that what people want?
Also, hidden services have been harder for Tor to scale than exit nodes, at least in the past few years. I don't think this is the result of the fact that Tor provides exit nodes. I think it's just a result of the onion service connection process being a series of fragile steps.
I do agree that supporting traffic to the web results in the Tor dev team prioritizing this use case over traffic to hidden services, but that's understandable given that it's the vast majority of their traffic and usage.
One objection a lot of people in this thread have to using Tor is the (misconception) that they'll be relaying Tor traffic. (It doesn't work this way in Tor.) But what you're saying is that i2p will scale because this is the default behavior in i2p. But is that what people want?
Also, hidden services have been harder for Tor to scale than exit nodes, at least in the past few years. I don't think this is the result of the fact that Tor provides exit nodes. I think it's just a result of the onion service connection process being a series of fragile steps.
I do agree that supporting traffic to the web results in the Tor dev team prioritizing this use case over traffic to hidden services, but that's understandable given that it's the vast majority of their traffic and usage.