As for 2025-06-15 I am not going to use Github's social features ever again. This means:
- I just unstarred all my starred repositories
- I just unfollowed every profile I used to follow ; sorry folks, don't take it personally 🤗
- Following me is now completely useless, because you won't ever see my face in your Github timeline again
You know the drill. Github is owned by Microsoft:
- Microsoft is a USA-based company
- The USA have laws that empowers the government to make tech companies use their technology against their users ; the kind of legal measures that you don't want to see "fall into the wrong hands"
- Some "wrong hands" are now in charge, my friend
- Microsoft, which already had a long history of being a despicable company, recently took things several steps further, by:
- Pushing useless "AI" features everywhere, with huge negative environmental/social/societal impact
- Taking the opportunity of "AI" to accelerate planned obsolescence of tens of millions of perfectly functional computers
- Leveraging "security" to spy on Windows users at an unprecedented level
Because I have no choice:
- My clients repositories are here
- The open-source software repositories I contribute to are still, inexplicably, here
- If your an open-source software maintainer, please, pretty please 🙏, migrate your repositories to another platform
- If you're a regular Github user:
- Don't use social features
- Explore other platforms
- Encourage your favorite open-source maintainers to migrate their repositories to another platform