yeah i agree it's our (?) fault for not working on forgejo federation (?) hard enough to copy github's success (?) in achieving a for-profit corporate monopoly structure that makes it extremely expensive to switch away from (?) https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116537372614635109
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github is well-known for its powerful federation features (???) which are necessary to find jobs (???)
if you tell people to boycott the corporation currently under a class action suit for violating its own terms of service and stealing credit for our labor to sell to the worst fuckboys on the planet you're actually being a hypocrite check your privilege
astral stole all my work off of github and particularly off of my immense effort in the pip issue tracker which i did because i thought it would help every single python user. they did that after i interviewed with them and decided they could avoid pesky questions about monetization by simply stealing my work instead
the model this presupposes is that employment is a function of recruiters looking at the links on your resume (false) and then calculating your clout based upon github stars (false) and then giving you a new job or maybe you keep your current job (unclear)
wildly uncommon terrible take from jonny. i know they really do actually care a lot about how federation builds power independent of corps. i know they have actually gotten a PR through gargron. i absolutely think they have good intentions but this makes two mistakes within the space of 5-7 words:
(a) assuming github's monopoly is related to federation
(b) denigrating people boycotting github for not writing code
(a) github's monopoly is github actions. it's the fucking yaml that is intentionally awful to write because they are trying to lock you in. if we're going to make excuses for maintainers, the fucking CI compat layer is the big expensive thing that stops migrations from github
i'm pissed off about this because nobody ever acts like making build and packaging easier for others is worth their time, or important, or subversive, or noble. pisses me off. that's the place that needs, right now, work done for compat, that you can start work on right now for a project you contribute to. that's literal anti-fascist work and maintainers will sing songs in your name if you do a good job on this for them
(jia tan offered to be helpful too. intelligence agencies need helpful people to be scarce so they can do evil shit)
(b) we are not in a shortage of fedi implementations. it is actually quite glamorous to do a fedi implementation. NLNet will pay you thousands of euros to implement federation. NLNet will pay fucking dansup tens of thousands of euros to implement federation. it is both glamorous and pays the bills to "add federation" to something. that's not grunt work that people are too high and mighty to do
(building and packaging software for others, to secure the software supply chain, so that maintainers write songs about your deeds? making your favorite software build on every platform? pulling your favorite maintainer from the ditch at the side of the road that github actions left them in to die? no you don't get any funding for that peon shit)
i have more context than 90% of jonny's audience for this bc i know they care about and deeply believe in this and have worked for years to achieve it. i understand their goals and i don't even think they're misguided—federation is absolutely the secret weapon we can build with the power of friendship and it is a mode no corp can ever match. i do in fact think that shit is cool! i do think it's novel!
i'm saying this "publicly" because (a) it's more rude to reply directly (b) i don't think it's really harming anyone
