• Kresten@feddit.dk
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      1 year ago

      What’s the value in an open sourced centralized service? Aren’t you just looking for a free service?

      • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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        1 year ago

        I’m not them, but the ability to contribute and extend the functionality of the product, whether I ever do it or not, is important to me. As is licensing. I want to build my self hosted stack on things that a company inherently can’t take away when they want more profit. With open source, I can go figure out how to build old code myself once I have the code. With closed source, I can’t download old binaries if they take them off of their website.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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      you realize thats not likely to be a thing due to hosting costing money. file hosting in particular is a bigger bill each month while realizing only minimal utilization increase. if its to be 100% free its going to collapse eventually.

      search for a subscription or ad-supported system you like. You aren’t looking for free software (what OSS is) you are looking for free service (increasingly rare on the internet)