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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/CompetitiveSubset on 2025-03-01 17:53:44+00:00.
I find it somewhat strange that big tech companies, that employee so much talented, smart, world class developers and specialists and yet I just don’t fucking care about any software they make. Be it closed source or open source. The last thing big tech companies think about are their users, their needs are and fact that software actually needs to serve people and not optimize ad revenue or train their fucking AIs.
OTOH, the self-hosted software space is filled with passionate, caring devs who actually think and care about their users, make software that improves user lives and gives joy to both devs (hopefully, open source is very stressful) and users (definitely). I’m actually excited every week when Watchtower is running any my stuff gets updated with new goodies and fixes. Yeah sometime it breaks too, but that is understandable and fine, backwards compatibility is hard, I’m not not mad.
It’s not even about closed source (Plex, JetBrains - great companies) vs. open source (ehhmm…everyone else lol). I don’t mind paying for software, but I want that software that working for me and not slowly enshitifying until I break and pay when I find out that “I’m hooked” and there the experience is just to terrible without a paid subscription.
Anyway, that’s all I got. WDYT?