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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.

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You cant call it open source when you need a goddamn API key from a server to do it, because wheres that api generator algorithm?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it's truly open source you can always host it yourself. But if you want the convenience of using someone else server then you will need an API key and pay if you reach a certain usage limit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah exactly, the assumption is that if they gice you the api key generator, but most with API key requirements dont unfortunately