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

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Do you never open https://github.com/ where there is a "Feed" in the center of the site?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    One big problem with GitHub that is only briefly touched on in the article is that developer teams used to be able to use the feed to get useful updates on what their team was working on. Now, it's polluted with unrelated AI generated suggestions. So for those of us who use Github as an enterprise application, we previously had a user friendly app that helped us get work done, but we now have a user hostile app that participates in the attention economy, luring us with distractions, which are the opposite of what we should be doing at work. The GitHub feed is now anti-focus, anti-work, algorithmic buzz, and enterprises like my employer still pay for that.

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