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I feel the histeria is around "MS mucks up anything they buy" and not "azure hosted products are doomed to fail"

Plus, it's easy to turn your eye blind when the closed platform you use is made by bunch of supposedly cool guys. When it's not-so-cool company that actively fought with you not that very long time ago, it becomes way harder.

Judging by the entirety of my social feeds, the hysteria is really in big part just virtue signalling of hatred towards Microsoft.

Microsoft deserves all of the mistrust they’ve earned. They worked hard for it. More so today, for privacy concerns. Even if not the code itself, but long term conflict of interest etc. — they’ve been historically unpredictable and offensive to their customers (today more than ever with Windows 10), so people should worry investing time on this platform. I already closed my account.

Regardless, self hosting, or a federated solution, should be a better exit route.

More so for developers with smaller projects, or with few collaborators or none. There was never really a good reason to lock oneself into Github to begin with.

> There was never really a good reason to lock oneself into Github to begin with.

There was one good reason - that's where other people were. Open source is fundamentally very much a social phenomenon, even if often in a specific, nerdy way of being social.

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