The reason is that I'm trying to keep my messages effective. If I complain against everything at the same time, I risk being ignored.
I don't like the closed nature of GitHub neither. I hope the free software world move away at some point.
The open source world can't seem to avoid locking itself in those closed tools, I would really like if we stopped doing this.
I chose Discord because I see it as a bigger issue than GitHub, with which one can interact with standard tools like emails and git, and basic stuff work without JS. So one can both refuse to run non-free code and interact with GitHub. Still not ideal and concerning.
Try to go back to the early 2000s and tell someone that the open source world is going to trust MS to host all their stuff. You would probably have difficulties to be taken seriously.
(Although it is to be noted that back then many people used SourceForge which was also proprietary)
Absolutely fair to call out both on similar grounds on openness and privacy being proprietary (publicly-traded megacorp vs. VC funded). One difference would be at least GitHub results can be found with a search engine and without authentication (though you cannot use the search for “Code” without an account).
I don't like the closed nature of GitHub neither. I hope the free software world move away at some point.
The open source world can't seem to avoid locking itself in those closed tools, I would really like if we stopped doing this.
I chose Discord because I see it as a bigger issue than GitHub, with which one can interact with standard tools like emails and git, and basic stuff work without JS. So one can both refuse to run non-free code and interact with GitHub. Still not ideal and concerning.
Try to go back to the early 2000s and tell someone that the open source world is going to trust MS to host all their stuff. You would probably have difficulties to be taken seriously.
(Although it is to be noted that back then many people used SourceForge which was also proprietary)