I ask my students to contribute to the opensource project of their choice. I just did a quick grep through the 238 projects I have in my archives. Of 238, 7 don’t mention "github.com". On close inspection, 6 of them are because the student forgot to putt the URL of the project repo. So, on 238 students, only one managed to contribute to a project which is not hosted on Github. It is even worse than I thought.

We need to talk about your Github addiction

We need to talk about your Github addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

For whatever reason, Github banned my IP for one hour and I need to see what my students have been doing. They must contribute to the opensource project of their choice and 99% of them end up on Github And, yes, I have a Github account even if I would like to get rid of it. But I can’t grade my students. Monopolies are bad. You think that it happens to other? It will hurt you deeply, sooner or later. I will hit you when you least expect it.

We need to talk about your Github addiction

We need to talk about your Github addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Something very few understand about medias is that most journalists are on traditional proprietary social medias all the time. They use them to know "what they should write about" or "what is popular". Which is of course self reinforced as people share traditional medias on social medias. Proprietary algorithms truly decide what the world is talking about. And now you understand why "Mastodon users doesn’t talk about what is popular". It is the opposite. It is not Mastodon fault.