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I have a paid account on Sourcehut and I like that it is independent. But...yeah there's a kind of "wife’s sister’s puppy fell into the strawberry patch" vibe t
by scandox 3y ago
I have a paid account on Sourcehut and I like that it is independent. But...yeah there's a kind of "wife’s sister’s puppy fell into the strawberry patch" vibe to a lot of their official communications.
- silisili 3y agoCan you explain what you mean by that?
- tangonov 3y agoI think what they are saying is that they're being too unreliable/unprofessional. Like "whoops, my grandpa spilled is coffee on the server so we're down again." This is not the vibe that I'm getting from their messaging and this is the first time in my 2ish years of paying that I've ever felt impacted.
- lemper 3y agobro, can you speak more clearly? especially this one -> "wife’s sister’s puppy fell into the strawberry patch".
- dijit 3y agoThats the point, the parent is talking about complex and long-winded connections.
- vips7L 3y agoHow is it independent? It’s just another company.
- junon 3y agoSourcehut being a company is like calling a farmer's market stand a corporation.
- vips7L 3y agoLooks like a duck, swims like a duck…
- junon 3y agoWhat's your point? It's mainly drew working on a fully OSS project that he happens to host and accept money for doing. Is your beef with people making money for their work? Or with Megacorps? Because sourcehut isn't one, by a longshot.
- steve_rambo 3y agoThey have a history of doing things with negative financial consequences just to make a point on some sociopolitical issue. I can't remember a single "just another company" off the top of my head that conducts business in this way.
- porkbeer 3y agoBingo. While I might afree with some of their points, it seems a poor way to convey them.
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoIt's still a company. Just because it's a company that behaves ethically doesn't make it less of a company. It's just a very odd one.
- ksjskskskkk 3y agothat's missing the point. the farmer at the farmers market also have a tax code and pay sales taxes. by your logic you would also make a fool of yourself and call a farmer at a farmers market a corporation, just like you're making yourself look like a fool now defending that a tiny ethical opensource focused one person company is a corporation.
- LarryClapp 3y agoI don't follow. A "corporation" is just an entity that's filed articles of incorporation with the appropriate government office. You can have a single person that owns a corporation or LLC. (Source: I own an LLC.)
- mcepl 3y agoIt is not paid to another company (ehm, Mozilla), or it doesn’t live from advertisements (almost everybody else). You pay for its services the old-fashioned way, with your money.
- mbreese 3y agoI think of it as similar to independent movies or independent bookstores (back in the day). Yes, it’s still a company/organization, but one that isn’t controlled by one of the big studios. So in this case, that really means that it’s not controlled directly (or indirectly) by a FAANG.
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoTheir status page was a lot more professional. But the third party hosting provider got DDOS'd as well.