It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. At least with open-source, you can fork it and remove the "features" or point your agent to it and have it write the feature in your tech stack.

Hell, I just saw an amazing open-source alternative to Raycast[0] and just replaced it the other day.

0. https://github.com/ospfranco/sol

It is, but Codeberg is only for free and open source projects.

until its not.

Every company or entity changes over time. Codeberg is great, but with more people using it for free, without donating, and worse, more people abusing the service with some bs AI generate code, malware, etc, more expensive will get to keep it running.. for now they have money, but as e.V in Germany, you survive either from members or from donations.. So use Codeberg, but most important, support it!

Codeberg is for FOSS repos only, and you need to submit an application before using their CI: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests

> Its competitors are not magically immune to this kind of spam.

Sure; a platform is a platform is a platform. As for predictions, it is interesting to see whether self-hosting and smaller self-managed infrastructures will gain more traction again.

The desire for free stuff is one of the most effective psychological hacks there is.

The large majority of the dystopian web, like Gmail, Facebook, etc. depend on that.

People who avoid e.g. Github, Gmail, Facebook, Xitter, etc. out of concern for broader principles will always be minor outliers.

Xitter is one of the best examples. Everyone knows it's compromised, owned by an dangerously antisocial person who's actively working at multiple levels to make the lives of everyone else on Earth worse, yet very few have stopped using it.

The saying "There's no ethical consumption under capitalism" is far too weak. It should me more like, there are no ethics under capitalism.

It will be there as long as M$ still needs to train LLMs on human-made code.

I must have a really really outdated version of K+R C.

Fuck the industry standard. That is how industry standards change.

By the way, most pre-industry-standard FOSS projects still have their own infrastructure. I do find it disappointing that Rust is on GitHub.

> kind of industry standard

...for now.

> like JIRA

is not an industry standard. It's a widely used software by some folks. I used it in the past, not using now, for example.

> Maybe it's just an experiment at this moment.

Does Microsoft understand objection and negative feedback to experiments?

    - No.
    - Remind me in three days.

Most larger orgs I worked for used Gitlab rather than Github.

Anyway, the core value of Github has always been collaboration - this is where people were. If people go to other platforms, this core value dwindles. And switching platforms is not that difficult.