Now imagine you get banned from GitHub and not only lose access to your data, but lose access to all the online tools you’ve become dependant on. It’s like the

Now imagine you get banned from GitHub and not only lose access to your data, but lose access to all the online tools you’ve become dependant on. It’s like the App Store debate from a decade ago. It was obvious that opting in to curation was a bad idea, but first movers were rewarded with huge profits because Apple was effectively giving them a ton of free advertising via discovery. This will be the same. The true long term cost of losing control is massive and not being adequately assessed as the huge risk it is.