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Re:Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server by dmonitor on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:39PM (#33510136)
Is Tailscale not good enough for a simple tunneling service?
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Re:Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server by anderspitman on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:46PM (#33510277)
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.
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Re:Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server by alexb_ on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:59PM (#33510507)
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.
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Re:Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server by anderspitman on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:12PM (#33510759)
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.

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