Why aren’t people moving away from Github? There’s Codeberg, Gitlab, and radicle. What’s holding them back?

  • sicktriple@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    A lot of people study CS or programming because they have been told it would make them a lot of money. If you just want to make money and don’t care about anything else you’re always just going to put in the minimum effort required, so I’m not surprised people just can’t be bothered to switch.

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      14 hours ago

      I hate that. I’m the worst salesman ever, so I’m super bad at interviewing, but I’m a good programmer. Companies are very critical and wary though, because some people are very good salesmen but very bad programmers. I don’t blame them, but t’s a rough environment

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      17 hours ago

      There’s also lots of people who become developers because they want to build the best software they can and don’t care to spend time thinking about whether one open source hosting platform is better for their code over another if they accomplish the same thing.

      Your response is insanely narrow minded and judgemental, not everyone chooses to fight the same battles you do.

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            1 hour ago

            Well I know for a fact your mom is a meat eater. And a chugger.

            Edit: I see your point now. I knee jerked before thinking it through. I thought you was going for the weak maga style slander but I see you was in fact making a point

            To your point. I was not a vegan but I was vegetarian for 6 years.

            My apologies to you and your mother.

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        16 hours ago

        Nowhere in my comment did I imply what you are saying. Please don’t project your internet grievances onto me. The two are not mutually exclusive and I in no way implied that they were.

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          15 hours ago

          Fair that they’re not mutually exclusive, but you did imply that that’s why the majority don’t switch.

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            13 hours ago

            I refute that categorization actually, I never implied that it was most, only that some number of people do indeed fall into that category and I’ve seen it with my own eyes to be true.

            Mostly my post intended to point out that not all devs give a single solitary fuck about FOSS and I would even go so far as to argue that yes, that probably constitutes a majority. Furthermore this attitude is likely a contributing factor (not the only factor by any means) towards the lack of excitement around switching over to open source version control web platforms.