Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source
by robertlagrant on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:34AM
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Thinking that a community lives in a git provider is a bad idea. It shouldn't matter who hosts a git instance, and I would argue it's better to fight for diversity here.
It might be better to fight for diversity, but I was pointing out the actuality of it all. Networks effects are real, and this isn't the project I want to see die because of it.
Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source
by robertlagrant on Saturday May 28, 2022 @11:43AM
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I don't really understand this. Is there much more to it than a new login in terms of network effects?
So, github is the daily workflow for many people. You're in it, your around it, your using it. It's kind of the same as out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
If I want to, I can signup for yet another site and do git-things with this codebase, but I have to change my daily process to include a one-off change to a new location. There are real costs with this mental flow change.
Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source
by robertlagrant on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:49PM
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I don't really see the downside. The providers seem pretty similar, and I can have more than one tab open on my browser.
But thanks for the explanation; I don't feel it myself but it's good to know!
I find a lot of projects because I follow people on github that star or fork really neat projects. I download projects from bitbucket, gitlab, and other self-hosted instances.
I don't know that I've ever contributed a PR back as it's just a more friction-prone process. However, I've opened hundreds of PR's and Issues on github because it's already a part of my daily process.
Thanks again