Look, at my job we self-host Gitlab CE. It's 100% Free Software and we could implement all the features we want without asking them a damn thing. Yet I still have asked them to "please add this feature".
It has nothing to do with being Free Software or not, but with asking them to do actual work in implementing the feature.
1) Add it yourself
2) Pay someome who is an expert with Gitlab CE code, maybe even certified as expert but doesn't work for GitLab CE.
3) Buy a plugin made by someone on a marketplace, which has reviews, maybe passed a security audit, etc.
In short, I am not saying no one has to charge anything. I'm saying that in an open ecosystem there would be plenty of options. You don't thank wordpress they finally let you add analytics or privacy to your wordpress blog, like you would with blogger.com back in the day. You may still have to pay for the plugin BUT you don't have to wait for an overworked Automattic to build it. You have an entire ecosystem.
And to take it one step further, with open standards you can then have multiple platforms out there to choose from, which can all work with each other.
The same thing with the App Stores and other things. So thankful that our latest version wasn't rejected for competing with Twitter or Apple or whatever. Yes, they built it. But that's phase 1. It's way better when it's an open source platform and no one gatekeeper to deal with.
Are you grateful you can wear a blue shirt? Or that now finally they'll play your song on a radio?
It's not about hostility towards github or anyone in particular. It's just pointing out (using the vernacular many geeks use to exaggerate a point) the ridiculousness of "we finally let you have sub groups" and "ok but please please add this feature".
Bitcoin will decentralize money and you won't be grateful that a bank lets you pay someone without a problem.
The web decentralized publishing and you aren't begging someone to please publish your story with a video so your friends can read it. It's just a market.
Same here. Centralization in social holding back progress by a lot, and preventing people from getting things done in the real world, and leads to business models to suck people into spending more time posting cat videos and commenting on politics and exacerbates their echo chambers until they hate each other, because they think they only have two choices for President etc etc. And what's the next big thing? VR. Suck them into even more virtual reality and monetize their time. Well, I could be a little mad -- not at the players but the rules of the game. Decentralize. Change the rules.
Don't like my platform? Use another! But host your own social network!
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