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dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
As an open source software developer, this is a weird hill to die on, and I donate to Codeberg every month.
Comment on Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
As an open source software developer, this is a weird hill to die on, and I donate to Codeberg every month.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I appreciate your perspective and understand the pragmatic approach of avoiding costs. But I’d like to challenge the framing of this as a “weird hill to die on”.
This isn’t about individual cost benefit analysis. It’s about collective responsibility. In a world where tech companies actively enable mass surveillance and violence (see linked articles), passive reliance on them is a form of complicity (even if we don’t pay). GitHub isn’t a neutral platform. It’s a Microsoft subsidiary deeply entangled with militarised oppression.
You’re right that Codeberg isn’t a for-profit corp, and that’s exactly why it’s worth supporting. The goal isn’t to “demand” free services but to divest from systems that profit from harm. If open source only thrives when subsidised by unethical capital, then it can’t liberate us.
As for privilege: it’s a privilege to have this choice in the first place while others are being starved to death and murdered while they beg for water…
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What are your thoughts on boycotting using US dollar?
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The US dollar is a state-controlled monopoly, not a voluntary tool like GitHub. The point isn’t moral perfectionism: it’s about divesting from optional systems that actively weaponise open source.
Nobody needs to quit GitHub overnight, but ask why we hold open source to lower ethical standard than our coffee or clothes.
GitHub/MS bans developers from sanctioned countries while selling AI services to militaries. If we only resist when it’s cost-free, we’re not resisting: we’re outsourcing our ethics to Microsoft.
dgdft@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lemmy is optional, and the project is hosted on Github.
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy