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tyil

@humanetech@mastodon.social @blacklight@social.platypush.tech @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social Millions that seemingly don't care about free software, otherwise they wouldn't be supported a closed platform in the first place. They support proprietary tooling, and the common support channel for projects on is a or community. The average Github user doesn't contribute anything of value, and doesn't care about the morality of anything. Yes, maybe a dozen or so per year grow up to see the error in their ways, but I don't think it's "good enough" to try and make every other forge into a Github-like shitfest. It doesn't attract quality people.

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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

@tyil @blacklight @ArneBab

I understand your bitterness and where it comes from all too well. Things can seem hopeless in the face of a mindless tech onslaught driven by greedy and ruthless hypercapitalism.

Yet the arguments, generalizations as they are, just don't hold sway.

Take for instance the majority of Fediverse projects.. they are on Github. You are using one right now :)

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Arne Babenhauserheide

@tyil The millions came to github, because it made it cool do share code with git. Its proprietary nature was very much not advertised, and "git is decentralized, you are not locked in" — except when you are. And github filled up actually missing pieces in git. Code review, issuetracking, easy hosting (no need to configure a bare repo — github hides that from you). Irony: there are many people who came there to get independence from proprietary VCS’es and platforms. @blacklight @humanetech

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