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Decrease number of hidden service hops?

There are several amendments to Tor being researched to enable this functionality; the functionality does reduce/remove the anonymity of the server but sometimes that is okay, e.g. if (like Facebook) ...
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Decrease number of hidden service hops?

Never decrease the hop length, because it's a purpose of having Tor entry point : to be censorship-resistant. If you will decrease your hidden service behaviour, you will not just decrease it's ...
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Configure for one hop only

The FAQ talks about this. You should let people choose their path length. Right now the path length is hard-coded at 3 plus the number of nodes in your path that are sensitive. That is, in normal ...
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Problems setting up a "Single Onion Service"

According to the manpage you can't have a SocksPort configured: HiddenServiceSingleHopMode requires HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode to be set to 1. Since a Single Onion service is non-anonymous, ...
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How to set hop count to 1?

You need to set HiddenServiceSingleHopMode 1 and HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode 1 in your server's torrc configuration file. This will use a single hop circuit on the onion service's side. You cannot ...
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Configure for one hop only

This is disallowed by all standard relays in the network. There used to be a AllowSingleHopCircuits option that relays could set to allow this, but it was removed several years ago.
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