alt Hacker NewsWhat should we do? The only thing I can think of is to stay vocal about it. Never accept enshittification. Always point things out when they suck.
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nicr_22 • yesterday at 9:45 PM
Focus on open protocols, simple formats over complex vendor-specific cruft. Then you can always "fork" away from an enshittified saas.
I bet a small team of the quality of the kind developers who are attracted to hacking on Ghostty could recreate the subset of GitHub functionality they actually need in ~six months. It's just the problem of how to pay for the ongoing care, maintenance and hosting? Maybe another opportunity for Mitchell's particular brand of philanthropic OSS.
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Not selling out, basically. Easier said than done.