"By being on GitHub, we reduce friction from the contribution process and we maximize the ability for others to join in and help. We lower the bar. This is good for us."

There have been many criticism towards GitHub on the Fediverse (#GiveUpGitHub). Some even say it's the "Twitter of hosting code". While I understand the rationale, I disagree. Been using GitHub for over a decade now and have hundreds of repositories there. Without GitHub it would be amazingly difficult to manage. I use for-profit products by Microsoft, can you imagine some of them have their place in the world?

I can quit Twitter, Facebook, etc. and self-host almost anything, but not my and the firm's code. Why?

Read: "What if GitHub is the devil?", an article by @bagder

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/28/what-if-github-is-the-devil/ #OpenSource #GitHub

You disagree with what exactly? That there are no viable alternatives to a walled garden whose owners abuse those who use it? Who have no respect for their work and intellectual property rights?

Because there are plenty of alternatives that people use every day.

https://GiveUpGitHub.org/

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

#GiveUpGitHub #UserRights #SurveillanceCapitalism #OpenSource

Reading through https://giveupgithub.org/ makes me really want to continue with the co-op codeforge a few of us tried to start a while back. Any cooperators want to join us and get it going again? #GiveUpGithub #CoOp