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I remember open-source projects announcing their intent to leave GitHub in 2018, as it was being acquired by Microsoft. I was thinking to myself back then: "It'
by m132 6mo ago
I remember open-source projects announcing their intent to leave GitHub in 2018, as it was being acquired by Microsoft. I was thinking to myself back then: "It's really just a free Git hosting service, and Git was designed to be decentralized at its very core. They don't own anything, only provide the storage and bandwidth. How are they even going to enshittify this?".
8 years later, this is where we are. I'm honestly just stunned, it takes some real talent to run a company that does it as consistently well as Microsoft.
- surgical_fire 6mo agoThis is nothing. I would bet that soon it will inject ads within the code as comments. Imagine you are reading the code of a class. `LargeFileHandler`. And within the code they inject a comment with an ad for penis enlargement. The possibilities are limitless.
- m132 6mo agoIf I recall correctly, what sparked the mass migration to GitHub was the controversy around SourceForge injecting ads into installers of projects hosted there. Now that we have tools that can stealthily inject native-looking ads into programs at the source code level...
- data-ottawa 6mo agoSame as it ever was. Same as it ever was.