Can you publish the source code of Tixati? It feels safer that way.

1) Free software, despite what media tells you, is not about some “feels”. It's a demand for users to not be exploited by software owners. Given that corporations doing exactly that are currently at the top of stock exchange lists, it hasn't lost any importance today.

2) You should actually become more worried when closed source program you use becomes open source. It's the moment when many possible old bugs can be discovered by new sets of hands. If you are unlucky, they might be dishonest.

Open source would build trust — not just emotionally, but through real audits and fixes. For a network-facing app like Tixati, some transparency is important.

Even just open-sourcing the CLI core (while keeping the GUI closed) could be a great middle ground.

I am honestly surprised that Tixati is proprietary considering that it advertises itself as "100% Free" and containing "NO Spyware and NO Ads".
From pictures and documentation Tixati seems like something I was searching for, but because it's closed source I cannot be sure that these promises about spyware hold up. It just seems to good to be true and I can't be sure what it's actually doing in the background.

I think many people would have similar reservations.
As I see it, the software as it is now would only benefit from being open sourced.

If the developer is worried about people stealing their work without credit or profiting off their free labor, then that's what copyleft licenses are for, right?

Tixati comes from a respected developper with long HISTORY.

Tixati is great AS IT IS.

Also for any one who worries about it, the solution is pretty simple (i did it).

1. Install a Firewall *if you dont already* with a DENY rule for everything. And you will be asked when some software want Internet access. Forte Firewall for Windows, open source for example.

2. Install I2P software

3. Setup TIXATI for I2P ONLY MODE.

After that you will see that Tixati works in I2P and never asks for access to the Internet. Because it connects locally to I2P.

PLS Stop bashing Tixati. If you are not happy with it, do not use it.

Oh no. The open source skeleton has come back to life out the cemetery again as its Halloween time!

If the source code was online all somebody does is pack malware then pay Google Ads to promote to top web searches and then people are tricked installing malicious Tixati version
The genius who writes Tixati does have 30 years credibility for writing P2P stuff. Yes KH could be undercover FBI agent inserting spycode for them, but they are all too busy trying to frame Trump so they are just "The FB" with no I at the moment (No Investigations, sorry closed until they frame Trump, I guess?)

Are you fully aware any open source program can be compiled with malware?

Only way to be sure, is download the source, review every line yourself with magnifying glass up close to the screen so you can see the color pixels, then compile yourself and be happy.
Ah but you didn't compile Linux or Windows yourself so how do you guarantee your operating system isn't spying on you, reporting to mothership? Ah my ISP might be spying on me so use VPN.
Ah my VPN provider is logging me secretly despite advertising no logs. Aw gee who can I trust. Yeah I'll trust Suck-A-berg with all my private data he surely won't sell me out for a private island?

Of course this is one of the questions job interviewers ask candidates,
If somebody asks certain questions they immediately learn someone does not understand what they are talking about without the asker even realizing. Just saying.

I use latest Operating System. Instead of using 0+1 binary this one uses 6+7's - Six Sevens -  much more secure and trustworthy.

AI has enabled every small criminal to add malware to source code or inject a trojan in a compiled binary. Your justification is misguided. You either trust the authors or compile from source. It should be much cheaper to have an LLM review a project's source code at a basic level. Would it find an xz-style backdoor? Who knows. Trust the author.

Finally, Tixati is too small to be targeted by usual malware campaigns. Not worth the ad money. An open sourced client will surely open the flood gates to Channels spam and flood.

Rather than open source, I just hope the license can be modified to allow distribution so I can add it to package managers https://tixati.com/tixati_eula.txt

Unfortunately, this 'Open Source' policy is not a panacea. Reading and verifying a program's code requires considerable amount of time and proficiency, a combination that many people simply don't have at hands. So the claim that it somehow automatically helps security and builds trust is pretty much bogus, I'm afraid. Or grossly exaggerated at the very least. Just look at what we have now - you can't take a step without bumping into someone's open source project (on github, no less - owned by M$!). Did it help free the programmers and their work from the corporate tyranny? Did it help reduce spyware/malware/crapware and general invasion of privacy by a significant degree compared with the time when many freeware projects were proprietary? I don't think so. Quite the opposite, in fact. Used right, Open Source projects promote sharing & caring. But misuse it, and this ideology only brings hell, making it easier to steal someone else's work and suit it to your mailicious ends under the guise of happy-go-lucky collaboration and security. So I think that proprietary projects with a good history of trust, like Tixati, should stay that way. Open Source can be a good thing, but even then it's not a necessity.