Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform
thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 8 months agoI really don’t see how the enshitification could work when we have the fee version of the central servers Headscale
So yes, it could be a pay wall for some advance featuresike funnels and so on. But the primary use is secured…
There is no guarantee headscale can keep working the way it does or that it is allowed to keep existing.
Honestly, this seems more than your assumptions and fears than anything else.
Clients are open source and foss, the moment something strange is in, Headscale could adapt.
If they finally goes to full close source, then the community will fork (emby - jellyfinn drama).
Your arguments don’t hold together, for the good of the community
I feel you are a bit out of touch when the topic is specifically enshittification and that it is based on the history of companies turning against their users, showing little good faith. It is also not something which is sparing open source projects (remember bitwarden’s attempt?). So sure, I’m not going to deny that I’m making assumptions and that I am concerned it may one day happen. But it is grounded in reality, not some tinfoil hat stuff.
Precisely bitwarden movement proves my point. Bitwarden tried to degrade the features/compatibility of the solution and they couldn’t because of the vaultwarden implementation.
Can they always add new features after a pay wall? Sure! But once foss Sw is here it is simple impossible to remove functionality, at most, to get some coins for services not fully selfhosted.
If tailscale tries to do something similar is goint to be a shoot into their own leg, because all the sw already disclosed makes it impossible. Could they make the relay a paid one? Sure but then they will face the competence of a vps with the Headscale implementation.
This and only this is because in your home lab only foss Sw should be allowed, even if you need to pay some money from time to time
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Their brilliant idea was to combine the amazing Wireguard with all the ideas from the VOIP world for performant p2p connections of mobile devices. That gave them a head start but especially with headscale existing, anyone can replicate that. Now, their business depends on being the slickest option for managing authentication, users, devices, and ACLs for businesses. The writing is already on the wall for selfhosters - we don’t really need all those features.