[sillyfluke]

It's the attention economy. You're engaging in something that is related to privacy and security, thus the credibility of the author in this domain will also be a factor for people wanting to invest their time exploring these solutions.

To not care who you are would mean not only having to review the current code as is, but to review every update that follows as possibly written by a hostile party. Ie, the time invested would be several times of that invested in something written by a more trusted party.

[dfish]

Ah I understand that. Good thing is you dont need to trust me! You can just read the code. And PRs are welcome, and over time more maintainers. You can also fork it. It has MPL-2.0 license to ensure code is always open.

In terms of the credentials; again, it is not a product like Bitcoin. I am not a researcher from some university. I don't even have a computer science degree. So I don't oblige to "credentials".

I am an entrepreneur, I had some ideas. One of those ideas is rayfish. I like to give back to groups or people. I live in a country where I pay no taxes so I can donate part of that to cat shelters from my homecountry and in this case I open-sourced rayfish because I think it is a good product many people like me will enjoy.

Does that reply to your concerns?