So, in your case (tailscale) as far I know is a VPN (tunnel), you have less hops but it's not the same as a clearnet only node without any hop in the middle.

Your node => Tor => Tor => Tor => Other node
Your node => VPN => Other node
Your node => Other node

In a competition to "find" the best path between two nodes, less (network) hops are good.

nikotsla

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siggy47

Thanks for the information. That's a lot of what I was looking for. Regarding it being network intensive, would those same issues exist with a hybrid node? In fact more generally, can you explain hybrid nodes? I know you can connect with both clearnet and Tor peers running a hybrid node. I do that, with tailscale. 