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Very strange take. A lot of software is built on trust and the people behind it. Hence why the social aspect of Github was so important to a lot of open source
by alfg 5mo ago
Very strange take. A lot of software is built on trust and the people behind it. Hence why the social aspect of Github was so important to a lot of open source software.
- LtWorf 5mo agoI don't think it was important. It just came at a time when sourceforge was being heavily enshittified.
- alfg 5mo agoThere were many other options for git and version control in general at the time, though. GitHub made the onboarding to git much easier while using the platform as a social tool.
- psychoslave 5mo agoHey, thank you for staying polite while expressing disagreement. That's much appreciated. To the risk it might seem surprising, I actually completely agree that trust is essential to software creation and and use. Actually I would more broadly frame it as, no trust, no viable sustainable society, no technical/cultural artifact. But trust and societies can be realized without individualism as underlying chief paradigm. That doesn't mean total negation of individual though. One alternative, among others yet different approches, can be state as a metaphor of individual like a cell in a social body. Thus the term metastasis, as when a cell starts to degenerate in self centric behavior at the expense of the health of the body as a whole. On the other hand, no cell, no body.