How is “bloat” measured here? Or is this simply a list of open source alternatives to commercial products?

The inclusion of Tailscale here was a little surprising to me. I'm betting on the latter.

	▲	ad_fontes an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I like Tailscale, but it's difficult to argue with a straight face that it's not seriously suffered from product creep. This is the inherent problem with tech start-ups. Once they solve the problem they were founded to solve, then what? It's feature complete, but investors insist that the line must go up. Can you imagine if `sed` or `vim` was brought to market by a venture-backed company? IMHO, capitalism and FOSS are fundamentally incompatible.