@aral @dansup good article. Amaroq mangles links when there are other adjacent non-URL chars (including parens or other punctuation), so here it is by itself:
https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

@AlainODea @dansup Thanks, Alain – good to know. Is there an issue open for that?

@aral I found a similar issue:
https://github.com/ReticentJohn/Amaroq/issues/45

It’s not exact. I’ll do some test reductions and post a new specific issue for this.

@aral I found the matching issue and provided some additional problem and solution analysis to help get to a fix:
https://github.com/ReticentJohn/Amaroq/issues/69#issuecomment-399783841

@AlainODea Awesome! Thank you so much :)

@aral my pleasure. I figured it's worth acting on the advice in your article :) I can't help the commons with subtoots :D

@bhaugen Actual quote from CEO. https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003415290368028672

@chr I'm waiting for gitpub :D

@chr That's... not what that link says. "To stay independent we want that to be an IPO instead of being acquired." (Among lots of other reasonably clear business strategy items on their strategy page.)

(I don't think moving to gitlab.com is necessarily a better choice than GitHub, though.)

@chr if gitlab were to disappear tomorrow, it would be forked - unlike github.

@doublah yeah but it wouldn't disappear, just change hands, and everyone already put their repos on the flagship instance

@chr @doublah not everybody is on GitLab, many projects run their own instance. I even heard people talking about git federation using ActivityPub - and I would be surprised if Microsoft was going to support *THAT*, now that they bought Github.

@chr why can't businesses be happy just providing a decent service?

@bob @chr How so?

@chr the advantage of GitLab is it gives us some breathing space to figure out how to do truly distributed development, and little more than that

@chr well, fuck...

@chr What is a liquidity event?

@Rosemary @chr it's an IPO.. initial public offering. You need liquidity, which is cash from common shares you sell on the market. It's considered "liquid" because it can be bought or sold instantly, instead of with bonds where.you have to hold for a set period of time, or private capital like Venture Capital where you put money in and can't touch it for a period of years. VCs need liquidity to sell their shares in a company to realise profit.