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The enshittification of Github continues (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Doctrow himself is pretty clear about this. Interoperability is the way you fight back against enshitification.

funny that's not what I just read in his FT piece "There are four constraints that prevent enshittification: competition, regulation, self-help and labour. To reverse enshittification and guard against its re-emergence, we must restore and strengthen each of these." published just yesterday.

Also FWIW we absolutely are locked into GitHub... because others are too. That's why M$ bought it in the first place, classic strategy from Redmond. I go use Gitlab, have my own Gitea instance, but in practice where do people talk on issues? Github. That's why even entities like Mozilla or KDE that have entire CI and bug system outside of Github still often have mirrors there. Because that's sadly where most of us end up being locked.