Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? (www.wired.com)

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People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.

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[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Why are people talking about useless social networks and not the ones that actually matter?

Lets talk Github people. Can Github escape the enshittification trap? Because not even Sourceforge escaped enshittification... and Github is now owned by Microsoft.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

So far GitHub under MS seems better than before. But I still plan to move all my projects to GitLab, because I don't trust them. But it's gonna be hard.

[-] CrazyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I hope you like clutter because gitlab's interface is atrocious...

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

We use a self-hosted GitLab in my job so I know my way around it.

[-] el_cordoba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Some parts are better. Github actions is still a dumpster fire.

[-] daanzel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My god it is; I had to jump through so many hoops to get it to do what I want..

[-] Tricky_Nerd@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Going with no, Github won't escape it because "enshittification" is just "monetization" to all of the corporations making those decisions.

[-] lucidwielder@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Tbh the git app or protocol makes it so easy to get up and relocate.. and programmers in general are probably some of the most capable users of relocating that even if it were to happen many of them wouldn't care that much. It's a good portfolio site and decent for collaboration of many projects. Doesn't currently get in the way and provides good or better visibility for projects than gitlab or bitbucket. Till the visibility issue is resolved better by a competitor that offers something significantly better or github makes disastrous decisions then people will be happy at github. Regardless I don't think there would be much drama around moving homes if that day ever comes.

[-] dumples@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Also social connections isn't the primary goal. In fact doing anything related to that would be weird in Github

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