yeah i agree it's our (?) fault for not working on forgejo federation (?) hard enough to copy github's success (?) in achieving a for-profit corporate monopoly structure that makes it extremely expensive to switch away from (?) neuromatch.social/@jonny/116537372614635109
if you tell people to boycott the corporation currently under a class action suit for violating its own terms of service and stealing credit for our labor to sell to the worst fuckboys on the planet you're actually being a hypocrite check your privilege
astral stole all my work off of github and particularly off of my immense effort in the pip issue tracker which i did because i thought it would help every single python user. they did that after i interviewed with them and decided they could avoid pesky questions about monetization by simply stealing my work instead
the model this presupposes is that employment is a function of recruiters looking at the links on your resume (false) and then calculating your clout based upon github stars (false) and then giving you a new job or maybe you keep your current job (unclear)
wildly uncommon terrible take from jonny. i know they really do actually care a lot about how federation builds power independent of corps. i know they have actually gotten a PR through gargron. i absolutely think they have good intentions but this makes two mistakes within the space of 5-7 words: (a) assuming github's monopoly is related to federation (b) denigrating people boycotting github for not writing code
(a) github's monopoly is github actions. it's the fucking yaml that is intentionally awful to write because they are trying to lock you in. if we're going to make excuses for maintainers, the fucking CI compat layer is the big expensive thing that stops migrations from github
@hipsterelectron this shit is fucking me up every time I hear it about any single monopoly you adding federation to a toaster will not make it desirable to general public, or some shit
@hipsterelectron i'd rather have some actual killer feature first, than federation which will make more or less sense depending on what you actually do, but fedibros don't actually give a shit about having killer features
