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Interesting OSS project: Holesail creates instant P2P tunnels between networks (like a VPN) (holesail.io)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Create P2P tunnels instantly that bypass any network, firewall, NAT restrictions and expose your local network to the internet securely, no Dynamic DNS required."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah matrix is even worse than discord for usability and finding things.

Just use a normal publicly readable and indexed forum like has been common for the last 30+ years, I don't understand the obsession with chat clients for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know IRC has been used alongside mailing list for open source software communities and projects for literally decades right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But not in place of, no one is trying to say no chat clients ever, we just don't want only chat clients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But... that is exactly what I've been saying since the start... If used correctly there is no need to instantly reject a project just because it uses Discord, or any other chat, as one of its options.