Post #2743303

2026-05-21 18:01 UTC

Microslop does it again! But it will take much more than this for people to leave GitHub. Someone will have to start making private repositories public to show that GitHub can’t be trusted for companies to leave. And someone will have to insert malware into GitHub releases from inside the system to make opensource people leave.

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@Godort@lemmy.ca 2026-05-21 18:33

Someone will have to start making private repositories public to show that GitHub can’t be trusted for companies to leave. What if it’s private, but used as training data for copilot, and can only be accessed publicly through prompt injection?

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@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2026-05-21 19:42

And someone will have to insert malware into GitHub releases from inside the system to make opensource people leave. And even that wouldn’t be enough for some of them, given SourceForge’s continued existence.

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@Windex007@lemmy.world 2026-05-21 21:11

As someone who has never really used github (I have for a few minor FOSS contributions… very short touchpoints) but use self hosted git… … what is github even fucking offering??? From my naive perspective it’s a light touch web ui on git? I don’t understand what gravity well it provides… what escape velocity is required to bail on it. From my naive perspective, I’d have as much allegiance to ot as I would be to an ftp server. Not happy? NP, I’ll take 17 minutes to move to 1 of 9999999 other equivalent services, or take 95 minutes to self host a functional equivalent.

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@lastweakness@lemmy.world 2026-05-22 03:48

Codeberg is constantly 504ing and private repos aren’t encouraged. Sourcehut is paid. GitLab is GitLab. So where are people leaving to?

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