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Oh great. I finally get used to GitHub Actions after Travis CI shat the bed, and now I have to find something else.

Thanks, enshittification.

What part of this is “enshittification”? It’s just a company starting to charge for a formerly free service. Hardly seems like that aggressive a move.

From https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

"Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

We are on step 2: then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.

It is not abuse to charge what amounts to a relatively small fee for a useful service.

It's not "a relatively small fee for a useful service".

It's an unnecessary fee to use self-hosted (i.e., not GitHub-hosted) components in CI pipelines.

That’s the service. What aren’t you getting? The service is the execution and orchestration of CI jobs.

They're squeezing their customers after locking in to juice their margins, having become a monopoly/monopsony. This is the classic enshitificaton playbook.

Nobody is locked in (unless they made some incredibly bad decisions) and this is a tiny fee in exchange for a useful service. I’m just baffled by the response to this.

It's not baffling if you read his Enshitification book. This is phase 2.

In 2010, people were saying it was very reasonable to start prioritizing publishers' ability to reach you over your organic contacts. After all, Facebook is providing this utility for free; shouldn't they be able to extract some additional revenue from their platform? And here we are in 2025...

Hey man, that's not fair. They cannot enshittify what has always been shit to begin with.

Oh you sweet summer child

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