Open source can be enshittified. FOSS with many contributors should be basically proof against being fucked with.
Comment on Self-Host Weekly (24 October 2025)
melfie@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
MinIO is really gutting the open source version. I also found it confusing that all of their docs are for AIStor, which I guess is the same product that was rebranded. I suppose open source is not immune from enshittification.
Badabinski@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah, I adopted it last year and I probably wouldn’t have picked it today. I’m glad that despite of that, in the end it’s just an S3 compatible storage and, thanks to that, it’s not too difficult to replace.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
It’s resistant, though, specifically because you can fork it. Don’t like where things are going? Like the features of a previous version? Fork that version and run with it.
It does mean extra work for somebody to maintain that forked version, but the option is nonetheless there.
melfie@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Quite true, and to that point, here’s the fork for the missing open source admin UI: github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser