alt Hacker NewsIn the long run we need to find viable alternatives to github.
I don't mean gitlab either. I think we kind of need repositories for everyone, as a human right - sounds strange but IMO we kind of need to build a new web with a lasting impact on the world. We should not need web-archive; things should be documentable. (Github is not responsible for disappearing web-pages as such, mind you; I just mean that we need to look at the whole problem here, not just on github only as gatekeeper.)
I don't like Google, but google-docs is great. LibreOffice should have something like that too. Every state as well. I really think this all needs to become a human right. Why is a US company offering this and just about everyone else is not, including governments? I don't understand it. And that is also just one example of many more things. We need to change the web to a better variant. In many ways the 1990s was better than what we have today. Everyone built websites. Today this is a bit ... well. Gone. People may at best put their "website" on facebook. That's a walled garden. It's not the same as having separate websites. I don't want the world wide web to become a walled garden gatekept by a few companies. But I don't see alternatives emerging - and nobody has time anymore, which is another problem.
“Socialism, like the old politics from which it emanates, confuses Government and Society. This is why every time we do not want a thing to be done by the Government, it concludes that we do not want that thing to be done at all. We reject instruction by the State; therefore we do not want instruction. We reject a State religion; therefore we do not want religion. We reject equalization by the State; therefore we do not want equality, etc., etc. It is as if they accused us of not wanting men to eat because we reject the cultivation of wheat by the State.” https://sourcelibrary.org/book/the-law-bastiat/page/6992c4c0...
But that’s why it’s so important that each of us are driven to make things. We can all make the world a little better by making the things that we want to exist in the world. Thou art that. It’s up to us! Shape the world, make it closer to what you want—
Make that GitHub alternative! You can do it!