alt Hacker NewsWhat happened to hacker culture? Did everyone (or enough) just sell out?
It’s fascinating to me that the people who know the most about tech keep deciding over and over to give something to some corporation and inevitably it becomes an issue. I guess ease of use and freemium really trumps everything; I expect more from smart people but money talks.
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Nobody wants to pay for git hosting. Seems like nobody wants to self-host it either.
I suggested we move off of github to avoid issues about a year ago. Every developer on my team looked at me like I grew a second head.
Just because you're a developer doesn't mean you're a hacker or you care for the craft on any level.
The wild west days are over.
I saw a thumbnail on Youtube that said "GitHub is killing open source" and I think the sheer wrongness of the statement surmises the entire idea very well.
There are many things that I don't like about Github, but I think the most important one is that Github doesn't allow users to have multiple free accounts.
You can create as many accounts as you want on Reddit, have as many blogs as you want on Tumblr, and even create multiple personae on Facebook on a single account, but Github doesn't allow you to do any of that.
You can't be a "hacker" platform when you give users less control over their privacy than Facebook provides.
I assume that is a bigger problem when you consider everyone decided to stop hosting their own forum and moving all their discussion to Github issues and Github's built-in forum.
It’s not about ease of use and freemium, it’s the strong network economies at play, just like credit cards or social networks. It’s impossible for a competing product to get traction if it’s merely a little better than GitHub.