MangoPenguin

Its not a local connection if you’re getting this message. You might be in the same network, but for some reason it’s not connecting directly.

Most programs on github will have a release you can just download and run, if you click on the releases section you should see some files for each version.

Oh gotcha yes it does. Are you on CGNAT with your ISP so you can’t forward ports?

Why does it need to be on a VPS? It seems to work on a home network when I played around with it.

Wireguard if you’re just using it yourself. Many various ways to manage it, and it’s built in to most routers already.

Otherwise Headscale with one of the webUIs would be the closest replacement.

There are some community webUIs for Headscale, headplane in particular looks pretty good: https://headscale.net/stable/ref/integration/web-ui/

I’m not sure otherwise how different the experience would be.

They only have access to data if you use them as a proxy on a DNS record, otherwise they’re just a normal DNS system.

Companies often sponsor FOSS projects, especially if they use them internally. It doesn’t mean Cloudflare has any access to data from it.

The Interstellar app seems pretty good so far

So far piefed seems a lot more responsive, but that could just be due to less users on this instance vs the lemmy one I use.