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A repo critical of the acquisition was removed from the Github “trending” page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17251255

This doesn’t bother me that much, as the repo itself was unaffected and I expect a trending page to have some sort of bias/editorship.

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IMO, the statement is far from being trusted, not the least because it is unclear if the trend dried up on its own.

The title in both cases is clickbait'y.

It didn't. I witnessed the repository (previously #1) suddenly disappear, despite it still gaining stars significantly faster than the other trending repositories. Another repository, 'deno', had been on Trending for a significantly longer time, so it's unlikely that the anti-Microsoft repository was automatically removed to make room for other repositories.

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