It is with great regret that I even considered starting this discussion, before checking how much it would cost; fortunately, the satoshal price pales in comparison to my personal loathing to consider jumping ship... however, I simply find that Github itself is slowly boiling the bilge, and see no reason to remain onboard.

A bit of history, for those who aren't familiar with the relevant politics: the Github website and the hosting services it provided were originally built by an independent startup, and it got acquired by Microsoft; along the way, the whole "social media" phenomenon has warped how the Internet looks and behaves in countless ways, some of them painfully obvious, and some of them quite subtle. Eventually, various advocacy groups began encouraging developers to reduce their dependence upon Github, for a variety of reasons; however, for much the same reasons, the bulk of human buzz around various technology projects still orbits various Github infrastructure, even if critical projects like the Linux kernel or the core Git tools don't actually depend upon the Github website for their ongoing development and maintenance efforts.

Unfortunately, the Github community (including official representatives of Github itself) have repeatedly given me reason to not only consider myself unwelcome, but also consider their apparent openness an actual deceptive practice, resembling the cheese in a mousetrap, if you'll excuse the subtle metaphor riffing off their once-cute mascot. After already getting banned once from interaction with one of their official "Orgs", and eventually getting that ban revoked, I have now been banned again, without explanation, and this time from the entire community Org, effectively removing my ability to participate in the main Discussions part of their site.

I can't even detail all of my various actions and comments that led to this situation, because they have been moderating old comments of mine, and because I naively never imagined that I'd get faded out like this, I haven't been immediately archiving my every step upon completion; furthermore, I must draw a line somewhere, and actually post this poll so the discussion here can begin, rather than waffle indefinitely over perfecting my complaint.

Ultimately, the impression I get from the past few years is that folks in charge want the atmosphere of Github to converge upon the same sort of faux-inclusive, permanently-happy, twee-emoji circlejerk found at the top of LinkedIn feeds, and while I don't mind occasionally using these sites to brighten the emotional influences radiated towards my person by the computer, I definitely value my own freedom of expression highly enough to seriously reconsider whether I should continue lending my own efforts to theirs.

And now, for the poll:

I have provided three choices that require no further comment; and one for making clear that you have some opinion that doesn't fit cleanly into the simple choices. Unless your opinion truly is accurately captured by one of the simple choices, please vote "Abstain" even if you don't have the time to detail your precise opinion in the comments! This is important for data quality of the eventual results.