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  • morrowind
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    11 months ago

    Github is not a two sided market, enshittification does not apply. They make all their money from users.

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      11 months ago

      No they don’t. Github was aquired by Microsoft to act as a funnel into their Azure Cloud and similar projects and thus subject to that “market”.

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          11 months ago

          Yes, hence the quotation marks in “market”. But Microsoft is a company large enough to have an internal “market” for different departments and there is also the outward pressure from Mirosoft’s shareholders for whom the cloud business in the main driver of profits/stock value.

          Edit: Maybe to make it more clear: Yes there are no advertisers as in the classical “enshittification” model, but Github is subject to similar outside pressures that do not prioritize the needs of the Github users and thus a very similar dynamic enfolds.