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Is Tailscale not good enough for a simple tunneling service?

• anderspitman 4y ago
  Tailscale is awesome. One of my two favorite companies alongside fly.io. But these are tools built for sysadmins and developers. Selfhosting needs tools built for the masses.
• alexb_ 4y ago
  What's a tunneling service? Do I need to use that before I can make a Mastodon account? What app is that on - wait, there are "instances", what the hell is that? Screw it, this is too complicated - I'm going back to twitter.
  • anderspitman 4y ago
    I completely agree. Which is why tunneling should be built-in to having a domain name. It should be easier than a phone number. You buy a domain from a domain seller and pay them $5/mo to provide tunneling. All the user needs to understand is: * I install the app * App requests access to your domain so it can set up appname.yourdomain.com * I grant permission and we're live.