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There's a whole meme subgenre dedicated to this type of argument. Search for "Yet you participate in society, curious!"
by tetris11 8mo ago
There's a whole meme subgenre dedicated to this type of argument. Search for "Yet you participate in society, curious!"
- driverdan 8mo agoExcept there are a ton of alternatives to hosting on Github that are not owned by one of the large companies he's railing against.
- raincole 8mo agoExcept it's completely different. You cannot "not participate in society" in a meaningful way. But you can self-host a blog. Especially for someone tech-savvy enough to talk about web technology.
- tetris11 8mo agoBut then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit. You also might not want your IP to be indexed by crawlers. Offloading the burden of hosting onto an already public site mitigates a lot of those issues. If it wasn't Github it would be Gitlab, if not Gitlab, somewhere else I'm sure. The point being you shouldn't need to soapbox from your doorstep, but use the commons as intended
- krupan 8mo ago"But then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit." For a static read-only website? No, that's not necessary.