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That makes a lot of sense, and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain the community's context and mindset.If the overarching sentiment is anti-corporate, then taking the core infrastructure out of the hands of proprietary, rent-seeking SaaS companies (who charge monthly fees just to hold your data) and open-sourcing it so anyone can run it on their own hardware feels like it aligns with that ethos-even if the domain itself is controversial.But putting the financial aspect completely aside: the reason I chose to build this is that the trading domain offers a level of raw engineering complexity that you rarely find in standard self-hosted apps. Handling real-time exchange WebSocket streams, fanning out market data via Redis, managing stateful Celery workers, and ensuring strict multi-tenant isolation (with JWT and Redis ACL quotas) is a massive architectural challenge. Even if you or others here have absolutely zero interest in participating in algorithmic trading, I was hoping the community might appreciate the architecture and the implementation itself.

Hi @curbstickle_lw, thank you for stepping in and for taking the time to actually look at the project instead of just auto-deleting it based on reports!

I did read the meta thread, and I completely understand the community's frustration with closed-source, paid advertisements.

To be completely transparent about the two points you raised:

1. Yes, I just registered. I've been working solo on this project for the past year and was looking for a community that appreciates self-hosted alternatives to corporate SaaS platforms. Since the project is fully open-source (AGPL), completely free, and built specifically for self-hosting, I genuinely believed it aligned with the rules and the core ethos of Lemmy.
2. Federation Hub (share-by-default): The reason it connects by default is that it powers the core community features (like importing visual strategy templates from other users), rather than acting as stealth telemetry. But I want to emphasize that it is strictly privacy-by-design (no hostnames or IPs are ever stored), and anyone who wants a completely isolated, air-gapped instance can instantly disable it by setting IS_CENTRAL_HUB=true in their .env file.

I really appreciate you giving the project a fair look and making a distinction between actual open-source projects and corporate spam. I'll gladly stick around to answer any technical questions!

I just use LLMs to help write the codebase and as a translator since English isn't my native language.

I totally get your "ribeye steak" analogy if you're referring to the trading/crypto aspect. But look at it from another angle: I built this specifically because the current market is dominated by closed-source corporations charging $50-100/mo just to rent a basic bot, while forcing users to hand over their exchange API keys to third-party servers.

Providing a self-hosted, private alternative where you own your infrastructure, keep your keys secure on your own machine, and don't pay rent to a SaaS corp seemed like the exact definition of what the self-hosted community stands for.

Is the topic of financial/trading tools just completely off-limits here, even if it's AGPL and self-hosted? Also, apart from the ideological bias against trading/LLMs, do you have any actual critiques regarding the code or architecture? I would gladly take them into consideration.