Post AXSQUZaGyBXBRYkCDQ by ch1cken@kbin.social
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(DIR) Post #AXEGBkNNIdP4MeJj2e by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2023-06-30T21:09:20.766866Z
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This shouldn't even be a question. IT IS CONTROLLED BY MICROSOFTit is a tool that they are using to embrace, extend, extinguish the free software movement, something they've been doing for more than a few decades now.
(DIR) Post #AXSQUZaGyBXBRYkCDQ by ch1cken@kbin.social
2023-07-01T00:45:29+00:00
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it is a tool that they are using to embrace, extend, extinguish the free software movementGithub doesn't care about the content posted on there until they get a dmca to take it down, or if the content's illegal, in which case any large company would've done the same. If you've got a specific example of censorship, which wasn't justifiably removed, feel free to share.Heck, i saw a popular github repo containing an activation script for windows a while back, and it looks like its still up. It has almost 37k stars.. Which literally proves microsoft doesn't give a damn.Now on the contrary, i absolutely hate things like codeberg, gitlab, sr.ht, sourceforge and the 2 trillion selfhosted gitlab instances to exist. I want to contribute to software or quickly report an issue? screw having to signup to a trillion services, and then waiting for my account to be accepted, because people can't decide on one platform to share code. It disincentivizes collaboration if anything. Github's already got a massive userbase, just stick with github, there's nothing wrong with it.
(DIR) Post #AXSQUayPnuRLkj2zU8 by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2023-07-07T17:10:51.101281Z
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> Github doesn't care about the content posted on there until they get a dmca to take it down, or if the content's illegal, in which case any large company would've done the sameNo, some companies would stand up against the US government and take them to court, or pull the plug entirely rather than be under US government jurisdiction. But that's beside the point because DMCA is *NOT* the only thing that causes microsoft to attack repos and never has been.>. If you've got a specific example of censorship, which wasn't justifiably removed, feel free to share.The very first "help people escape from github" page was censored.That's the thing about oppressive systems: the things that always work best is the surveillance, and the thing that doesn't work is anything that allows you to make leaving them easier.> Heck, i saw a popular github repo containing an activation script for windows a while back, and it looks like its still up. It has almost 37k stars.. Which literally proves microsoft doesn't give a damn.because microsoft wants you to pirate windows. It's better than using linux.> Now on the contrary, i absolutely hate things like codeberg, gitlab, sr.ht, sourceforge and the 2 trillion selfhosted gitlab instances to exist. I want to contribute to software or quickly report an issue? screw having to signup to a trillion services, and then waiting for my account to be accepted, because people can't decide on one platform to share codeit's better than giving code to microsoft, which is the biggest threat to the free software movement that has ever existed.>. It disincentivizes collaboration if anything. Microsoft is not about collaboration. It's about you giving them free shit. There's a difference.> Github's already got a massive userbase, Yes, lots of people are victims of proprietary software and have been since forever. Doesn't mean we won't start killing people who enable this.