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So you don't want to port-forward on your home router or have Cloudflare decrypt all your traffic? Check out Towonel.

Most open source Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives involve setting up a VPS, terminating TLS there on a reverse proxy, then setting up a Wireguard tunnel to your server at home.

Towonel is different: it does not decrypt your traffic on the VPS and you can easily share one, so not every self-hoster has to buy and maintain a VPS.

Check it out!

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh great. So now there's a tuwunel and a towonel and they're completely different things.

(tuwunel is a fork of the matrix backend conduwuit. not to be confused with continuwuity, another conduwuit fork)

[–] fhoekstra@feddit.nl 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I know, the naming isn't ideal.

On the bright side, you can now expose multiple tuwunel instances via a single towonel and federate with other tuwunels on other towonels for maximum uwu owo

Which is almost what my friends and I are doing, except we're running continuwuity instead of tuwunel.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Holy shit. That's all I got

[–] mcheva@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What other apps are in the UwU stack?

[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh, I wasn't aware there were Conduit forks, thanks!

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh right, forgot to mention conduwuit was itself a fork of conduit. Man