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Blue blue@zaps.lol 1 year ago

Picture shamelessly stolen from @BitBox shop 😚

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Blue blue@zaps.lol 1 year ago

Github is the ₿-ETF of code.

Blue blue@zaps.lol 1 year ago

Bitcoiners: Take your coins off exchanges. Also Bitcoiners: Check out my cool project on Github.

Blue blue@zaps.lol 1 year ago

Great this get's a bigger audience. Thank you!

Blue

𝗚𝗶𝘁 - 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘣 - ... 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 I find it interesting that Bitcoin develeopment projects tend to centralization. Let me explain: Year is 2005. Linus Torvalds creates Git in because someone suddenly wants to monetise the labour of thousands of open source enthusiasts. The company BitKeeper hosted the Linux kernel for free for years and simply changes its licence terms overnight. Opensource under attack. Fast forward ... today. Bitkeepers attack was successfully fended off. Git is everywhere. But now what? Most repos are hosted on GitHub. Did Microsoft aquire Github for only $7.5B because of their well known Opensource ethos? 🤔 Now what's next? IMHO it may be worth checking out alternatives: either the big ones (Gitlab), or maybe sth. like Codeberg[1], or self hosting, whatever ...

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Blue blue@zaps.lol 1 year ago

Decentralize everything! GitHub is not git.

Blue

𝗚𝗶𝘁 - 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘣 - ... 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 I find it interesting that Bitcoin develeopment projects tend to centralization. Let me explain: Year is 2005. Linus Torvalds creates Git in because someone suddenly wants to monetise the labour of thousands of open source enthusiasts. The company BitKeeper hosted the Linux kernel for free for years and simply changes its licence terms overnight. Opensource under attack. Fast forward ... today. Bitkeepers attack was successfully fended off. Git is everywhere. But now what? Most repos are hosted on GitHub. Did Microsoft aquire Github for only $7.5B because of their well known Opensource ethos? 🤔 Now what's next? IMHO it may be worth checking out alternatives: either the big ones (Gitlab), or maybe sth. like Codeberg[1], or self hosting, whatever ...

Codeberg.org

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Blue blue@zaps.lol 1 year ago

Git > GitHub

Blue

𝗚𝗶𝘁 - 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘣 - ... 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 I find it interesting that Bitcoin develeopment projects tend to centralization. Let me explain: Year is 2005. Linus Torvalds creates Git in because someone suddenly wants to monetise the labour of thousands of open source enthusiasts. The company BitKeeper hosted the Linux kernel for free for years and simply changes its licence terms overnight. Opensource under attack. Fast forward ... today. Bitkeepers attack was successfully fended off. Git is everywhere. But now what? Most repos are hosted on GitHub. Did Microsoft aquire Github for only $7.5B because of their well known Opensource ethos? 🤔 Now what's next? IMHO it may be worth checking out alternatives: either the big ones (Gitlab), or maybe sth. like Codeberg[1], or self hosting, whatever ...

Codeberg.org

Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

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