Enshittification begins again
this is why we use [GitLab|SourceHut|Gitea|Codeberg|Forjego|Choose your favorite and insert it here]
(in other news it appears i have inadvertently discovered that the lemmy dialect of markdown supports ruby)
Yeah, I’m not sure what this article is even trying to say; this has been happening for a while now.
Like, it’s shitty, but it’s not even the shittiest thing Github has done. I’m more annoyed about the whole AI stuff, the fact that they have de-facto veto powers on most open source projects and that they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life.
Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.
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https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements
Here, I’m afraid. Third bullet. Whether or not they enforce it is another matter.
Sucks because I kinda might want to contribute some things to projects that I don’t want people to know professionally.
Or maybe I can just make my profile private and hope nobody goes looking too hard.
They…have an “add account” feature right in their UI though. They are obviously okay with multiple accounts. Perhaps it is an abuse thing like if they notice you sock puppeting or something.
That’s for if you have a personal account and one provided by your company.
In some cases, you may need to use multiple accounts on GitHub.com. For example, you may have a personal account for open source contributions, and your employer may also create and manage a user account for you within an enterprise.
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Oh, they do.
I didn’t clear my cookies/use a vpn to sign up for multiple accounts.
All registered accounts, including my main one, were locked. All secondary ones were shadowbanned. I had to message support to get restrictions on my main removed.
Did they actually unlock your account?
All the horror stories I’ve read about this sort of thing usually end in “I tried to contact support/submit an appeal but they told me to take a hike”.
Yes, they unlocked one of them.
Is Codeberg a good alternative if I’m gonna have my dotfiles (public) and some open-source software?