We need to talk about your Github addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Publication about the monopoly of GitHub and the fact developers should move elsewhere if they care about their freeedom and the freedom of FLOSS projects

  • @thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•1 hour ago

    Wait, there’s a GitHub “feed”?

    None of the bad things mentioned here have happened to me using GitHub on the daily. Totes agree it’s probably not great to depend on a business for free hosting, but it’s also pretty straightforward to move in the future if needed.

      • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 minutes ago

        Do you ever go to wikipedia.com? Most people hit most webpages via searching something specific. Sure, you might go to some news, ecommerce, or social media sites landing page, but I’ve never once thought of going to github’s landing page in the last decade… maybe if I suspect an outage, but not to view content.

      • esa
        4•53 minutes ago

        Nope! I tend mostly to use /org/repo and other subpages. The few times I find myself on / I’m just confused at how I wound up there and close the tab.

      • @thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•51 minutes ago

        Thanks - I have now! It looks like updates of repos I’ve stared? But I’ll never go there again, and suggest OP not do that either if it’s upsetting to them. I just go to my profile, or the project I’m interested in.

  • Sonalder
    9•3 hours ago

    Thanks for sharing theses very important thoughts. I think I agree with the author on this even though I am not a dev but I do some minor contribution from time to time.