Next headline: GPL considered harmful, enables hate speech, favors extremist websites.
I’m joking but GitHub was extremely woke in the two years before the acquisition. Banning open-source and making everything cloud-dependent would be a great way to ensure no ungodly website is run freely.
esr or rms or someone had a good essay on why “use for good not evil” license clauses (banning use by militaries was a favorite) werent a great idea for free software.
Still does not make it less centralized though. If the majority of people is on that one instance of terrible forum, and you get banned, you are still going to have a hard time participating. And just like with other social media, you could of course host your own thing. But with that come content moderation obligations, if open to the public. A lot of work to create a parallel service.
