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by satvikpendem 72 days ago
Funny that people said the exact same thing back when GitHub was originally acquired [0], I wonder how many actually went through with their words and ditched it. I bet GitHub has more users today than ever before though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286
3 comments
windward 72 days ago
>Why MS cares your private repositories? give a reason? Maybe using your code to train their programming robot, lol

>Whether they will abuse the trust of having complete and total access to every private repo and all of the code inside or not remains to be seen

>MS is pushing their ads within their own OS more and more, will GitHub get the same treatment[...]?

Funny.

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lynndotpy 72 days ago
Just speaking anecdotally, Codeberg today feels like the Gitlab of yesteryear, except that Codeberg has projects on it. Someone who is contributing to open source will eventually need to create a Codeberg account.

The top comment of the linked thread ("If Microsoft shares SSL certs with NSA they could do MITM attacks") is something that I find much more likely today than back in 2018.

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Andrex 72 days ago
They can have the new users pushing out sloppy projects.

The serious users leaving will definitely dent profitability. And GitHub being a social network, could start a death spiral.

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satvikpendem 72 days ago
What profitability? I'm pretty sure GitHub is a loss leader to push people to Azure and cloud services. I also don't know anyone who actually uses GitHub as a social network even though it ostensibly has such features.
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Andrex 72 days ago
The social features were GH's early secret sauce that contributed heavily to its stickiness and why it eventually dominated. IMO.

I should have said "will dent whatever profitability." I'm not sure it exists either. From the outside, it would seem crazy that it wouldn't be profitable with all the Enterprise stuff (and it's not like you can throw 10k engineers at whatever GH is doing).

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