We need to talk about your Github addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Publication about the monopoly of GitHub and the fact developers should move elsewhere if they care about their freeedom and the freedom of FLOSS projects

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 days ago

      Do you ever go to wikipedia.com? Most people hit most webpages via searching something specific. Sure, you might go to some news, ecommerce, or social media sites landing page, but I’ve never once thought of going to github’s landing page in the last decade… maybe if I suspect an outage, but not to view content.

      • verstra@programming.dev
        4·
        5 days ago

        Ah here is the difference: I maintain a few gh repos and our company works exclusively on github. So in the morning, I open github.com to see notifications (via g-n shortcut).

    • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      5 days ago

      Nope! I tend mostly to use /org/repo and other subpages. The few times I find myself on / I’m just confused at how I wound up there and close the tab.

    • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Thanks - I have now! It looks like updates of repos I’ve stared? But I’ll never go there again, and suggest OP not do that either if it’s upsetting to them. I just go to my profile, or the project I’m interested in.

      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        One big problem with GitHub that is only briefly touched on in the article is that developer teams used to be able to use the feed to get useful updates on what their team was working on. Now, it’s polluted with unrelated AI generated suggestions. So for those of us who use Github as an enterprise application, where previously we had a user friendly that helped us get work done, we now have a user hostile app that participates in the attention economy, luring us with distractions, which are the opposite of what we should be doing at work. The GitHub feed is now anti-focus, anti-work, algorithmic buzz, and enterprises like my employer still pay for that.

        • verstra@programming.dev
          1·
          4 days ago

          Yes, very much this. There are still my coworkers’s PRs in the feed, but not all of them and there is many other things there too.

          What I’d want is to have notifications on the frontpage.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      5 days ago

      Hobbyist - I only use it for casual home projects. I open the bookmark of my repo to see a major update definitely uploaded and then close it again.

      • verstra@programming.dev
        2·
        5 days ago

        I’ve just realized that no, I don’t use bookmarks anymore. I used to use them, but nowadays, I just start typing the name of what I want to open and firefox omni-bar will find it in my history.