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Self-Host Weekly (14 August 2026)
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Replying to @darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
And that’s it. Self-hosted and open source software is a double-edged sword. Developers have the freedom to build and share whatever they’d like, but that same freedom also allows them to make unpopular decisions No, you are not entitled to anything from software you haven’t paid for.
Yet another nugget of truth. Muh boy be ringin’ the school bell.
Alas, I see not much of interest this week.
Replying to @irmadlad@lemmy.world
I’m not a big fan of this sort of pseudo-philosophical contrarian fence-sitting.
I mean sure, he’s not technically wrong, but it also implies that while Developers have the freedom to perform these rug-pulls (they do), the author simultaneously wags their finger at the people who have equal freedom to react the way they have.
Developers (companies) are not entitled to be free from criticism or backlash for acting shitty.
contrarian fence-sitting
I view it as living in reality.
Developers (companies) are not entitled to be free from criticism or backlash for acting shitty.
I didn’t take it as such. Sure, criticize and backlash all you need to feel comfortable again, but at the end of the day, open source dev teams pretty much chart their own course. That also applies the the entire kingdom of software, hardware, etc. Yes, they may lose customers or users, but it’s still their lump of clay to mold as they see fit. If they go tits up because of said rug pulls, then they go tits up. Life will continue and other options will be chosen.
Replying to @irmadlad@lemmy.world
Hmm seems everyone is living in the same reality as you though, so your comment has no substance or meaning other than some weird self-enlightened moral grandstanding.
This type of pseudo-intellectual bullshit is the exact type of thing I’m talking about lol
People are absolutely justified and allowed to criticize the greed of this company. Part of living in objective reality is that you reap what you sow. Everything you just said is not really relevant to that simple fact.
If I write some software and put it on my GitHub then you come along and install it, that does not mean we now have a contract the binds us.
Replying to @anon_8675309@lemmy.world
Cool, nobody said you did.
Similarly, there’s no binding contract that says when you remove features from your software’s community edition in order to drive more profits without any added value, that I’m disallowed from criticizing you for it.
The users will have to deal with the loss of features, and you will just have to deal with the criticism.