Not selling out, basically. Easier said than done.
replyFocus on open protocols, simple formats over complex vendor-specific cruft. Then you can always "fork" away from an enshittified saas.
replyI bet a small team of the quality of the kind developers who are attracted to hacking on Ghostty could recreate the subset of GitHub functionality they actually need in ~six months. It's just the problem of how to pay for the ongoing care, maintenance and hosting? Maybe another opportunity for Mitchell's particular brand of philanthropic OSS.
https://forgejo.org/ already exists, I suspect the issue would be hosting it at scale
replyDNS is the cause of all problems, but it's also the solution - just like anyone can run Apache or Nginx, so should anyone be able to run a git setup. Then it scales really well, as everyone is doing their own thing on their own domains.
replyOf course, you lose out on some things like ease of user access and various protections.
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