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please forgive my ignorance, what is the point of tailscale in this? i read it but couldnt understand? is it like one of those "this assumes everyone is in the same local network witout firewall hassles? why not use something like zerotier?

does this do something else?

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Tailscale and Zerotier are in roughly the same business: mesh VPN. And you might use this because you don't already have Zerotier setup, and are trying to determine how to use this.

And you might decide to use this instead of Zerotier because you don't trust the protocol behind Zerotier, being some weird custom thing, but Tailscale is just a fancy management layer over Wireguard.

You're pretty much there.

Lots of kids and people without public IPs they can write NAT rules for setup Minecraft servers at home etc. This is the classic example that can be solved with ZeroTier, TailScale etc.

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