@ocdtrekkie Hello! 👋 Welcome to twtxt.net 🤗 So happy to have you join our growing twtxt community! Check out /feeds for interesting feeds and other folks to follow and /discover for all Twts of local users.

@ocdtrekkie (re twtxt.txt feed URI) Yes! Just append `twtxt.txt` to your user profile URI. E.g: -- We _had_ a link in the User profile view but removed it as I _thought_ it would confuse people. Not sure where else we can expose it right now

@ocdtrekkie welcome to twtxt! Great to see another new member of our little community! (Pod)

@ocdtrekkie @antonio (#xv2o3ua) That's the thing though... There are already laws in place that protect CopyRight holdders of Source Code and infringement. The problem is (_as is often the case_) "these corporations" are often so big that they behave as "assholes" and no individual has the money to fight them. Hence my original offer stands, if any other Aussie feels strongly about this like I do, please email me and if there's enough interest we can get a Class Action going.

(#xv2o3ua) ... That being said though @ocdtrekkie you are right _I think_ (_in our email discussion_) in that M$ may entirely drop this as I can only imagine the backlash is (_if not already_) going to be **HUGE**. OTOH even if I decide to move my code elsewhere, there's no reason I can't re-mirror the software projects I _actually_ work on and maintain and just have a `README.md` in palce (_but no code_) Right?

@ocdtrekkie @prologic (#xv2o3ua) Perhaps treating the Github project page as a Twitter™ account that some OSS project have where you can link to the real project source and have a Readme there on Github with a FAQ. I don't know. But it is a bit of the story repeating itself, right? Some website comes around, looks inoffensive, everybody start using it, becomes relevant to what we do, and then, some company comes around and start to change rules and abusing it. I think the lesson is only one here: Take ownership of your identity and don't rely in a centralized service.

@ocdtrekkie @prologic (#xv2o3ua) The only convenience that I see on Github (apart from the discoverability) it is that with one account I can create issues in any project. If we start hosting our code on our own Github like instances we will need to have an account for each instance. Which is a bit inconvenient (just a bit because we are likely to use a password manager and it would be set once and forget)

@antonio @ocdtrekkie (#xv2o3ua) > Take ownership of your identity and don’t rely in a centralized service. This! 💯

@antonio @ocdtrekkie (#xv2o3ua) On identities and logging in to other people's Git Hosting platforms (e.g: Gitea, Gogs, whatever), there's an easy way to manage this. Implement or configure OAuth so you can use whatever identity you already have, be it Github itself or your own provider. I _might_ do that too if I decide to do this. Still thinking about the whole thing and watching what unfolds...

@ocdtrekkie also on another note I’m so glad you’ve logged back into your account on my pod again and posted because I’m in the process of cleaning up old rubbish accounts that never really got used you know what I mean 😜