Tailscale is great and headscale is an important step to gain trust. However, headscale is useless without the clients, and Tailscale geoblock installing clients where they can. If the platform requires jailbreak for installing user-chosen software, as is the case with iOS, then it all becomes useless.

Open (preferably free software) clients without idiotic restrictions could be one of the main advantages for any competing solution. Does Netbird provide them?

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nixosbestos 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why would Tailscale seek to limit access to their clients, other than where required by law?

The Android client, at least is FOSS. It's hardly Tailscale's fault that people buy iOS devices.

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ZoomZoomZoom 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't care why. They do nothing to circumvent this so they are not a reliable solution for those who have network participants using the restricted platforms.

There could be a million reasons, but not a technical one — "headscale client", for example, could exist in current hostile app stores, but there isn't one.

	▲	nixosbestos 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Your arbitrary, loosely-detailed complaints would apply to literally everyone, every app. It's on f-droid, it's open source, you're being ridiculous. I'm not even sure you understand what you're asking for. The official, open source Tailscale client explicitly supports headscale servers.