Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? - eviltoast

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.

  • lucidwielder@kbin.social
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    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
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      1 year ago

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