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  • With Tailscale and other mesh VPN, by default all your machines are client and servers. If you have 3 machines A, B and C, when machine A wants to send something to B it will connect to the server that B has.

    These mesh VPN have a central server that is used to help with the discovery of the members, manage ACLs, and in the case one machine is quite hidden and not direct network access can be done act as a relay. Only in that last case do the traffic go through the central server, otherwise the only thing the central server knows is that machine A requested to talk to machine B.

    You still have to trust them if you want to use their server, but you can also host your own server (headscale for Tailscale). Though at this point you still need to somewhat trust Tailscale anyway since they re the ones doing the client releases. They could absolutely insert a backdoor and it would work for a while until is is discovered and would then totally ruin their reputation.



  • If you are in an enterprise environment, it is easier to sell Ubuntu - at least there is a company that can provide support for it behind. Companies want to make sure someone is on the hook to fix an issue that would be blocking to them, and this is much harder with something like Debian.

    That’s why Red Hat is used that much in companies, and what Canonical main revenues are coming from.

    But as a selfhoster, I use Debian by default for my servers. Only if there is a very specific need for Ubuntu would I switch, and I am frankly tired of the Snap shenanigans on my desktop (thinking of migrating to PopOS or KDE Neon).



  • I honestly don’t know. Beehaw defederated a couple of instance and after a discussion with the other instance reintegrated that one, saying that they could not get in contact with lemmy.world. While I saw a chat from lemmy.world saying they could not reach out to beehaw admin. My best bet is a communication issue and that will be resolved, and this is mostly about beehaw wanting stricter standards than lemmy.world and getting spammed by a few people on lemmy.world, making their life difficult for a while and without a fast communication channel with the admins of lemmy.world decided to go with the quickest option.


  • Imagine you are at school and every class display their drawings/paintings. And because the teacher are super nice, they allow you to write comments under the drawings. That school is one lemmy server, with each class being a subreddit.

    What is nice about lemmy is that it is federated. This means that by going into your school, you can also view what other schools are doing, and that is really nice to learn what other people are doing. This is also used so that you can have lots of small school everywhere with a smaller size, closer to everyone’s home and can also be better for some people.

    However, at some point the administrator of beehaw saw that some pupils from lemmy.world were a bit annoying, putting graffitis and making a mess. And the administrator of lemmy.world wanted to have as many pupils in his school as possible, which makes filtering and managing bad pupils difficult. So the administrator from beehaw basically established a rule: the pupils from lemmy.world cam still view our drawings, but they are not allowed to write anything. And this will be the rule until the behaviour of the lemmy.world school improves.