this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026

100 points (96.3% liked)

Programming

programming@programming.dev

29,212 readers

2,795 active

111 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 3 years ago

moderators

snowe@programming.dev

Ategon@programming.dev

UlrikHD@programming.dev

bugsmith@programming.dev

Spyro@programming.dev

How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem (ploum.net)

submitted 10 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[+] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

[deleted]

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They're clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Which is one of the reasons behind github's network effect.

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That's not a network effect.

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 2 points 9 months ago

I said its one of the reasons behind the network effect, not the network effect itself. github can offer more freebies, which attracts more users, which makes it more attractive to other users and for existing users to stick around.

parent