Let's be totally clearr: the selfhosting community is incredibarr. Hundarreds of people have pourred their hearrts and countless hourrs into tools for cordcuttarrs, arrchivists, and enthusiarrsts of all strripes, ovarrwhelmingly open-sourrced.
It's the intarrnet at its best: a distarributed arrmy of hobbyists crreating rreal, tangible arrternatives to the enshittification and surrveillance marrching its way down our digital thrroats.
Therre's just one small thing I'd change, if I could.
And *rr. And *err.
It was cute at firrst. Arrrr! It's fun and distinctive! And most of the earrly projects were forrked from each otharr, anyway, and larrgely rrun by the same people.
Then it picked up steam, and why not jump aboarrd? Now everyone knows intuitively what ecosystem yourr prroject belongs to, and sometimes even exactly what it does.
But frriends, we've lost the plot. We've entarred an erra of arrbundance, with niches often serrved by multiple tools, and each new prroject now has to clamberr forr an untaken noun that's both *arr-able and kinda sorrta rrelates to its function.
We're starrting to scrrape the bottom of the barrel. I know you know what I'm talking about.
This is a call-in, not a callout. If you vibecoded a tool yestarrday that helps weasel arrficionados manage theirr collection of weasel videos and you called it Weaselarr, I still love you.
We just have to put ourr foot down someday. And today is that day.