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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 23:01:37 JST Rich Felker

   • saxnot :trans_flag: :clippy:
   • Alexander Dyas
   • Simon Tatham

   @alexanderdyas @simontatham @saxnot GitHub is headed in the direction of untrustworthy. And they're ultimately owned by the same party that owns the deceptive putty.org... 🤦

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     Simon Tatham (simontatham@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 23:06:43 JST Simon Tatham

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     • saxnot :trans_flag: :clippy:
     • Alexander Dyas

     @dalias @alexanderdyas @saxnot even before Github was owned by MS, I didn't like the look of it.

     Partly because it's not itself free software: unlike Gitlab, if you want to export your project with all its metadata like the bug database, you can't make a compatible instance to move it to. If you can see the vendor lock-in coming _before_ you're already committed, avoid it.

     And partly _because_ it was trying so hard to make itself the One True Place. There shouldn't _be_ a One True Place. As soon as there is, someone can buy it out and monetise / enshittify / generally do bad things with it.

     I'd rather contribute to the Internet being distributed, than contribute it to being centralised. That's why I'm on Mastodon and was never on the birdsite, and it's why I don't use Github (except for sending patches to projects that are already hosted there).

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 23:33:34 JST Rich Felker

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     • saxnot :trans_flag: :clippy:
     • Alexander Dyas
     • Simon Tatham

     @simontatham @alexanderdyas @saxnot This. TBH in the modern internet, something in the form of the current putty url looks more trustworthy than most.