Submitted 23 hours ago by darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-08-14/
irmadlad@lemmy.world 17 hours ago 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.
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 freedom to react the way they have.
Developers (companies) are not entitled to be free from criticism or backlash for acting shitty.
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.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 15 hours ago 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.
Thx
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The SSO tax kills me. I just want to auto log into things. And my stupid password manager doesn’t respect subdomains, so it shows me 100 credentials on each site I host.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Which password manager? I had the same problem with BitWarden until I found a buried setting to tweak each password domain. Maybe there’s a badly advertised feature in yours, too?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Holy crap, they added it! I’m on 1password and hadn’t checked in a while it seems.
I’m an idiot :-). But thanks
darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
It’s really annoying to go into each entry for items in my local domain and change the detection to host and do that for every service I spin up.
fluckx@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m on board with this. It sucks and it makes things a lot easier to be able to have SSO.
But I’m also peeved the SSO tax is nearly always in the enterprise tier and never in the first paying tier. Even if you’d want to pay for it, the enterprise cost is usually a multitude in price with features you likely don’t need.
They just know companies have policies that enforce SSO for compliancy reasons and are forced to pay.
But as a self hoster the enterprise tier is even more disgustingly expensive.
But the open source projects we use and love also deserve contributions ( financially ). But as a self hosted there’s also a financial incentive to self host and not take everything as a SaaS ( besides the obvious take control of your data ).