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Jesus Christ this is just an old man screeching about emojis. What a worthless argument to put to paper.
While he concentrates a bit too much on emojis, he brings up valid points.
No he doesn't. It's a low barrier to switch, there are dozens of competing products, and if they ever do something supremely stupid it's easy to move away. But as it stands, it is an exceptional product and there is zero need to increase workloads for maintainers.
It's creating work because the dude got annoyed with emojis and worked backwards to invent some need to create work.
We don’t need to move, this super flammable building hasn’t gone up in flames yet…
It’s Microsoft we’re talking about. Are you sure they don’t fuck it up?
Better to move away now, on our own terms. That’s my opinion.
👌👍 MS is going to prevent you from moving your code. Take the fee win instead of making more work for some low probability future that honestly, I have no idea what you were evening referencing.
Lol, MS is going to enshitify GitHub so hard and everybody with common sense is seeing it coming.
I mean the author has a right to his opinion, as much as you have a right to yours. Time will tell who’s right.
Yeah, I love open source and privacy, but developers are staying on github because it's not enshittified (yet). I do wish we'd all move to another platform, if anyone wants to keep the github UI, gitea (and forgejo/codeberg) straight up cloned it at a certain point, see https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo for example