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Re:Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed versio... by BlueTemplar on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:46AM (#39452663)
Github also managed to succeed through being a kind of social network (think "stars").

If you care about Github's dominance being an issue, walk the walk : refuse to do bug reports through it, publicly shame people and companies that use it or advertise it.

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Re:Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed versio... by patates on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:03AM (#39452800)
If I care about one thing, I should "shame" others who do not care about it? It feels like your comment escalates things up too quickly. Could it be that you wanted to expand your thoughts in between and didn't have the time or just forgot?
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Re:Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed versio... by BlueTemplar on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @08:07AM (#39453312)
It's a comment, not a blogpost, I am assuming some familiarity on HN with these issues, why using Github would be considered bad behavior :

An actual blogpost :

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS...

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Re:Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed versio... by rapnie on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @09:33AM (#39454288)
There's also sfconservancy's GiveUpGithub campaign: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
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Re:Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed versio... by dash2 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:55AM (#39452722)
I use Github and I bet 99% of coders here do too. If someone tries to publicly shame me, I'll just laugh at them.
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Re:Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed versio... by throwaway290 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:05AM (#39452817)
> I use Github and I bet 99% of coders here do too.

I know plenty of people & projects using Gitlab and Sourcehut (myself).

> If someone tries to publicly shame me, I'll just laugh at them.

Shaming may be wrong. You must have pretty good job security/wealth/influence to refuse Github because this can lose you many opportunities in the industry.

But that doesn't make it good, only understandable & honestly sad

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