Exactly, this is why the selfhosting community is full of user testimonials on how great tailscale is or how beneficial it is to funnel all of your traffic through cloudflair.
A new user will read that over and over and think I guess this is the consensus on how to do things.
The problem is there are no bots out there telling you that there are well proven open source tools that have been around for half a century that solve the same problem and there is no need for these 3rd party commercial products.
Advertising works and covert native advertising and unbiased “user testimonials” is very effective at shaping opinion, especially in a bot driven ai world.
Exactly, this is why the selfhosting community is full of user testimonials on how great tailscale is or how beneficial it is to funnel all of your traffic through cloudflair.
A new user will read that over and over and think I guess this is the consensus on how to do things.
The problem is there are no bots out there telling you that there are well proven open source tools that have been around for half a century that solve the same problem and there is no need for these 3rd party commercial products.
Advertising works and covert native advertising and unbiased “user testimonials” is very effective at shaping opinion, especially in a bot driven ai world.