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It is thought that stream ciphers are unsafe for shadowsocks. However, XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF is an AEAD construction, not just a stream cipher.
There is no clear evidence that AEAD constructions with stream ciphers are not safe. And stream ciphers are usually quicker than block ciphers. Furthermore, XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF is the officially recommended cipher in libsodium documentation. read this
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Restoring the "XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF" encryption scheme