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0 pointsrmunn10d ago0 comments

So instead of paying a subscription fee to Tailscale to support your distributed application, you pay a subscription fee to Iroh to support your distributed application. (https://www.iroh.computer/pricing says $19/month for what most people will want to use it for).

Either one will allow you to stop "concentrating distributed technology to a handful of centralized owners", but the "why not use tailscale" part of what you're trying to say is not at all evident from your comment.

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flub10d ago· 2 in thread

iroh is fully open source though, you can run your own relay server and not have any dependencies on number0

telotortium10d ago

Headscale exists, not sure what the difference is in practice.

rklaehn9d ago

This might not be a giant difference in practice.

But headscale is a community project. The iroh relay code is by number0 just like iroh itself and lives in the same MIT and Apache2 licensed repository. You can even embed it into your webserver if you have a special use case - it is very modular.

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