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  • I appreciate the elaborate response. The intricacies of licensing arent fluent in me and the reminder helps.

    Copyleft is cool but for OPs question, I would suggest source available at least. My criterion is that I (or op for that matter) can look at the source code of this project, not everyone on every downstream project.

    I‘d also distinguish between in and out licensing. If they want to make a product that is not foss, copyleft wont work so reviewing the code would be the smallest denominator imo although I would not use or recommend their software.










  • I selfhost for 2+ years and it is both a job and really cool. We‘re not at real consumer self hosting yet imo but we‘re close.

    My setup is around 50 docker containers on two servers. Important (offline) and security conscious stuff at home and fediverse services on a vps.

    I‘m currently working on object storage which is a lot of work but its fun and maybe will come in handy too.

    You can check my setup on github. Feel free to hit me up if you want to do it too or wanna discuss stuff. You can also see my matrix in my bio.

    Have a good one.


  • I have no experience making free software or even just software for a living. What I do have experience in is making a living in a historically cruel and enshittified industry while staying true to my values.

    So in order of complicatedness (low to high):

    • work at shitty company and make enough
    • work at shitty company and make bank
    • work at less shitty company
    • work self employed for multiple companies
    • make own company that is not shitty








  • Gonna be the 100th person to chime in:

    Hobby dev with a different main profession for 20 yrs here. Its the same everywhere, in any profession. I know, I‘ve had a couple.

    In a bad environment, you‘ll never flourish. You wont even know your actual strengths. Please quit, try something else. Not necessarily a different profession but definitely a different team/company.

    Most of what you mentioned tells me that you‘re currently in a bad place. If the team is bad, everything else gets spoiled. Sadly, you need experience to tell the difference. It might be great for someone else even, just not for you.

    What you could use is some hard evidence to your strengths, your passions and your specific personality. Most likely this is achieved by taking a break. Either a long nice vacation or moving on. But time off is very important. Reflection is the key and it needs time and space.

    All the best and dont worry about not being enough or doing badly. You‘re doing allright.