Comment on is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

toasteranimation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, moved off GitHub the moment they announced it cuz I thought they were gonna pull the old Microsoft embrace extend extinguish

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  • toasteranimation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    as I moved off LinkedIn the moment they announced that

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  • josh_dix@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    GitHub is not likely to follow that trend just because it has more value for them if it sticks around. They bought github, I think, for the branding as they’ve struggled immensely to get people to trust team foundation server and later azure devops brands because they sucked so bad early on. Using GitHub to put an entry-point for azure focused products in front of a huge audience is sly as well. Microsoft only needs to extinguish things if it is a threat (usually when they don’t own them). They’re happy to buy successful brands and roll them into integrations with their other products, making partnerships with growing orgs hard for said org to avoid. That’s what they want possibly more than anything as big enterprises take ages to begin working with entirely net new partners so they look at who they already have agreements with.

    I don’t think anyone needs to be on github that’s just there for OSS projects. Internet search and content aggregating platforms are good enough at getting me to where I need to go. GitHub’s search has never really been useful for me on that front.

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