• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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        Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there’s going to be a purge of this kind of software from the platform coming down the pike.

        I’m sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I’ve never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.

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          5 months ago

          There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.

          Gitlab comes to mind.

          Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

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            5 months ago

            It’s impossible to imagine that they haven’t talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.

            The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven’t turned it to shit yet, but it’s basically inevitable isn’t it?

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              5 months ago

              Microsoft is a services company anymore.

              You pirating their desktop operating system as an end user is something they don’t care a lot about if we’re being honest.

              Inevitable, idk. Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t trust them but they’ve acted in good faith so far as it pertains to GitHub.

              If they enshittify they have competitors.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I mostly use Linux. Unfortunately, certain games only run on Windows and you’re stuck using it if you want to play those titles.