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0 pointstptacek3y ago0 comments

Yes, yes it is unserious. Shopping malls aren't public squares, as several decades of US jurisprudence has ably established, and the collapse of shopping malls in the face of ecommerce amply demonstrates that the argument was silly to begin with. You couldn't have picked a better bit of evidence for my argument; thank you.

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Dylan168073y ago· 2 in thread

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Yes, legally they are very much not public squares, and that is a bad thing.

I'm talking about what should be, what is good for society. Not how the legal system currently works. Talking about that is not "deeply unserious".

And nothing about the collapse of malls changes that either.

tptacekOP3y ago

They were never legally determined to be public squares, and that's a good thing, because that would be an eminently stupid decision to make about an institution that will be about as relevant to American life as drug store soda fountains in 10 years. And so it goes for the awesome societal importance of GitHub. Inconstancy is my very essence, says the Wheel.

Dylan168073y ago

> because that would be an eminently stupid decision to make about an institution that will be about as relevant to American life as drug store soda fountains in 10 years

Malls lasted a long time. But why is that a stupid decision? Let's not even say "decision" though, let's just say every mall offered to rent the hallways out to the local government at a nominal fee, nothing else changed, no lock in. Wouldn't that be a significant improvement?

And when I said earlier, tens of millions of users, if github wants to be small again then it will go back to the bottom of the sliding scale.

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