@angristan No number is mentioned so this information is worthless.

But if they just divided the number of quitters by the number of accounts they announce, yes, they will find a very small number. This is because, in ANY social network, the vast majority of accounts is dead (people who tried once, bots, etc).

@angristan Nat is so cute omg I'd rather give him my freedom than see him sad

@angristan He could commit a CSV at least to show his sadness.

@angristan Those of us considering this seriously haven't had time to make a choice and set a plan in motion. Expect this number to go up as bigger projects and organizations reach a decision. The acquisition was announced 5 days ago...

@remram44 @angristan Also all of us who were using github were still compromising on the ideals of free software. It'll take a while before we start to see if they'll start to push more difficult compromises on us.

@alienghic @angristan I personally recognize that GitLab has become the better product (free private repos, integrated CI, group boards, self-hostable). I am mostly using GitHub for legacy (and publicity) reasons. We'll see if Microsoft gets GitHub out of feature stagnation...

@remram44 @angristan Another thing that might happen is more people will use GitHub as a glorified off-site backup, instead of using it as their primary mode of social coding engagement. (vis-a-vis the Linux source repositories on GitHub. They exist, and you can follow them, but submitting PRs against them is fruitless.)

@angristan EVERYTHING IS FINE, RETURN TO YOUR HOMES

@angristan I wondered if GitLab was so small they would have trouble scaling up after so many developers moved to them but it's barely noticeable by GitHub. There are also probably a decent number of developers who left their repos on GitHub but still moved stuff to GitLab or somewhere else.

@angristan De toute façon, GitLab più Bitbucket sont aussi centralisés, le problème est le même.
Et qu'on ne me parle pas de GilLab en self-hosted, personne ne fait ça!
La seule vraie solution serait une plateforme centralisée gérée par une association libre sans but lucratif

@chindit @angristan

ou une fédération nan ? genre au moins quand t'es pas content tu t'en vas autre part mais ça marche toujours.

@xenthreaded @angristan C'est quand même plus simple d'avoir un endroit centralisé je trouve. C'est pratique quand tu cherches un projet par exemple. Mais pourquoi pas finalement.

@chindit @angristan
(je suis pas assez calé pour être sûr de ce que je raconte)

Ouais je suppose que la recherche ça complique le problème mais dois bien y avoir des solutions, genre comme des tables de routages.

On arrive bien à trouver des gens sur le fediverse sans devoir tout le temps mettre leur instance.

Tout ça pour dire que même avec les meilleurs intentions du monde, l'idée de tout foutre au même endroit m'a pas l'air ouf

@chindit @angristan
plop https://framagit.org/public/projects 😎

@angristan it’s gitting wild

@angristan The marketing speak here is painful, and I don't think Github has a terribly good handle on how many users have actually left Github for other Git hosting solutions

Is an account that hasn't seen a commit, login, or any usage in months or years still an active Github user? I think not.

I'm just waiting for Github to embrace what Teams and Skype have done, with broken or non-working webpages served to non-Edge browsers unless they send an Edge useragent (in which case everything works fine).