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GitHub changed the world of open-source. | |
In the beginning it brought together the disconnected programmers who always wanted to work on something with other like-minded people. | |
In the present it's no longer the foreground. Businesses and professionals connect and the profiles become a bragging ground. | |
The GH PR system is stretched to its limits. During the early days this was ok: PRs were few and far between. It worked. | |
I've changed, and so has GitHub. As I grow older I care more about my impact and personal data responsibility. I care about FOSS work being used for profit. | |
This is one step in a series towards real code and data ownership (again). | |
I don't believe GitHub is inherently evil, or bad, but it is having interesting consquences for existing! What I've done is simply a response to its evolution. | |
I will continue to use GitHub, and even promote GitHub, for certain cases. | |
Read you later! | |
-- lf94 |
"I care about FOSS work being used for profit."
Then educate people about licenses.
The FOSS code on GH does help people make a difference and is not just used for profit by others.
@nothub the commit data is not accessible in a public manner at least, which is all I cared about. You're right that once data is submitted to GitHub there is no guarantee it is ever gone. My goal is absolutely more social than technical!
@89z @minsk-dev I don't want to delete repositories because I want to be able to redirect users still (instead of being presented the 404 page)... I could have used the API but functionally what's the difference? I found it quite easy to not use the API for this.
@nero I still want to keep a presence / identity but that's a great idea too 🙂
@just-Bri I'm a little confused because I explicitly say I'm not advocating for people to stop using GitHub... I completely agree it makes a difference. No, I'm not taking responsibility for others to educate themselves. A large issue is the lack of non-commercial FOSS licenses because all NC licenses are not considered free by the FSF. I know of a few but as far as I know none have been battle tested.
Thanks for the comments everyone!
So now you wanna know everytime someone wants access to your code. That's it?
I did a clean sweep in the past by creating a new account and then swapping the handles, deleting the old account. This has the advantage that it disconnects all your activity in issues/pull requests in other projects from you.