this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
999 points (99.2% liked)
Selfhosted
60024 readers
697 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam.
-
Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Please ensure it is clear in your post how it relates to self-hosting.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or git here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title.
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Buddy, I don't know if you've been living under a rock but everything a venture capitalist touches is enshittifying. You think any of these companies you're reading headlines about are suffering to keep their doors open? When google locks down android or X starts including ads in Grok they're doing it to keep the lights on? You think if Bitwarden started cutting free services and charging more the average employee is going to get a proportional raise to the new profits?
No. We're not upset because we dont understand that a company needs to make money. We're upset because we have basic pattern recognition skills and we understand the nature of late stage capitalism on wealth inequality (at least intuitively). This (likely) isn't some smart business person coming in to balance the books, this is (likely) some rich asshole whose job is to kill the golden goose and sell it for parts before anyone catches on that you need it alive to produce eggs.
You only have the world you live in thanks to capitalism. Without calitalism things like Bitwarden wouldn’t even exist.
Companies exist to make profit. Investors want profit, that’s why they invest. That’s why these products exist in the first place.
There’s no better system than capitalism, and complaining about “late stage capitalism” and blaming everything on it is dumb.