GitLab open sourced push mirroring and added it core. This is a great win for #decentralization!!! You can now run your own canonical GitLab instance & easily mirror to GitHub for findability.
@diodelass I've seen things evolve from the early days of personal computing, and yes over time things have been becoming increasingly scammy. It's not that there weren't scams in the past, there just seem to be a lot more now, and scamming people, spying on them or generally creepy behavior has moved from something socially unacceptable to fairly mainstream.
A lot of this is just driven by capitalism. In the early days you have the dreamers and visionaries who aren't focussed on the bottom line, but over time the people with ideas get driven out and replaced by cubicle drones or "yes men" ready to follow the bosses orders regardless of ethics.
Remember when we trusted software? When people said things like "don't install things from that site, they're probably viruses" and "I won't use software from them anymore, they put in ads and broke my trust." Now it's all "install this app, it's absolutely spyware and adware and was written by some techbro in a basement motivated by nothing but quick money, but your phone's sandboxing should protect you from having your phone taken over or personal information stolen"
Documentary about singer M.I.A. (“Use your art to say something!”) and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed (small-town preacher struggles with life and death) : 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 4 -
@brainblasted@peter Slack has already run a bait-and-switch on xmpp, so you can only expect it to go downhill from there. Use communication tools which are controlled by the community, not some self-interested corporation.