Comment by tetris11
1 day ago
There's a whole meme subgenre dedicated to this type of argument. Search for "Yet you participate in society, curious!"
1 day ago
There's a whole meme subgenre dedicated to this type of argument. Search for "Yet you participate in society, curious!"
Except there are a ton of alternatives to hosting on Github that are not owned by one of the large companies he's railing against.
Except it's completely different.
You cannot "not participate in society" in a meaningful way. But you can self-host a blog. Especially for someone tech-savvy enough to talk about web technology.
But then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit.
You also might not want your IP to be indexed by crawlers. Offloading the burden of hosting onto an already public site mitigates a lot of those issues.
If it wasn't Github it would be Gitlab, if not Gitlab, somewhere else I'm sure.
The point being you shouldn't need to soapbox from your doorstep, but use the commons as intended
"But then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit."
For a static read-only website? No, that's not necessary.