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We need to talk about your Github addiction (ploum.net)

submitted 2 days ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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

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[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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, we previously had a user friendly app that helped us get work done, but 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 points 1 day 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.