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Why do you not use the MyFamily setting in your config files?

Having only some thousand nodes is exactly my concern, this is just too few.

So run a few exit nodes yourself, to dilute those run by spooks.

...good nodes...

Yes, not all nodes are good. Nodes with a bandwidth of less than 5Mbps are basically a feel-good exercise. Do you want your network traffic to go though a 64KB/sec soda straw?

Yeah, me either, and the Directory Authorities share our pain. I've read the 80% of Tor traffic exits from just 50 nodes. Really, your money is probably better spent in donating to an organization that runs high-speed exit nodes rather than running a node on your 128KB/sec DSL line. Diversity is important, but if an adversary can confidently ignore the 80% slowest nodes, where's the diversity in contributing to that cohort?