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littlecranky67 ◴[] No.41091792[source]
Tailscale complaining about centralized actors controling the internet, yet not allowing to sign up for Tailscale with your email but strictly requiring to use a Microsoft/Meta/Google account. Cant make this up.
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1. SparkyMcUnicorn ◴[] No.41091920[source]
You can use just about any OIDC.

Some of the self-hosted options presented during sign up include Keycloak, Ory, Gitea, Zitadel, Authelia, and more.

There's also a workaround to create a passkey account by signing up with any SSO provider, inviting yourself as an external user, accepting that invite and sining in with a passkey, then leave the original SSO network. Then you're not tied to any external service at all.

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2. littlecranky67 ◴[] No.41091992[source]
Or, wild idea, just allow email signups like everyone else.
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3. SparkyMcUnicorn ◴[] No.41092032[source]
Agree or disagree, a tailscale co-founder responded as to why they went this path.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760130

> (I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want to stay out of the username+password business; it's simply bad security practice.