Programmers, can you inform me why people still use github? Its owned by Microsoft, promotes AI garbage, and that alone kind of makes it shitty as a place to host open source stuff in my book. As a simple plebian, am I missing something? I don't code, so does it offer something that other platforms don't?

#programming #github #opensource #FOSS #FLOSS #butwhytho

@cloudskater it took me months to go from "I should get my projects off of github" to actually moving them, and my level of use of their non-git features - from pull requests to actions - was always very modest. There's a ton of overhead in finding another place to host stuff, transferring repos, updating web pages and configurations to refer to the new location, et multiple cetera. It's a ton of work, in return for basically the status quo (minus the high-pressure AI upsell).