Not surprised, I think I was subconsciously waiting for this as Mitchell has been very vocal about Github on X. They killed a lot of developer goodwill, and I feel this is just a start of the mass exodus.

Good luck to the team with migration! (And here's hoping it's ersc :))

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baggachipz 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> very vocal about Github on X

I really wish an open-source developer of his caliber would also migrate to a serious microblogging service which isn't so openly hostile to truth and civility. Ending the sticky network effect of an evil service starts with its biggest, most prolific users migrating away.

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Karrot_Kream 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not about the technology, it's about the people. The initial people on your network matter. The moderators matter too. That's just a very different job than writing and shipping code.

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atonse 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's all about who you follow. My feed is mostly AI people, entrepreneurs and nerds. Some political stuff gets through, but otherwise, I'm glad to be back on X in the last few months (I left a few years ago in disgust over the insane politics because even nerds were only talking politics).

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Klonoar 7 hours ago | parent [-]

No, that’s just solving for you. The person you are responding to is asking for an ethical stand; just because you can ignore it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

This is the same bullshit that people bring up with Facebook, there’s no reason we can’t apply the same rubric to Twitter.

	▲	atonse 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry, I don't follow. Are you saying that he should leave a social network website because some of its users are bad? Or that the people that run the website are bad? And also, there's some alternate microblogging site that is less hostile to truth and civility? Which site is that?

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ghthor 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer