Updated 03-Aug-2025
- See also: Part 2: Open source project sustainability -- not yet available
- This article is a work in progress
- See also Against venture capital
We really need to learn from Google, Twitter, etc.
The fact is, these large companies are unaccountable, and not only illegally scrape but also can scan your stuff, delete your stuff, and generally mess you up.
We need to look at the myriad ways this goes, and get off the hell ride.
- Software
- Services
Content
- Cloudflare bad.
- Sourcehut pages (and the detriments of using Github).
- Gitlab problems
- Codeberg pages
Open source and non-VC company cloud and self-hosting options.
- Notion -> Obsidian (Free, closed-source, plugin community)
- Google -> Start Page and their business model
- Chrome -> Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi