Ghostty Leaves GitHub: What My Usage Logs Say About Devs' Real Dependency on Microsoft Platforms Why do we keep calling it "the open source community" when it runs almost entirely on infrastructure owned by a company that paid $7.5 billion to buy that space? I've been asking myself that every time I do git push origin main and automatically trigger a GitHub Actions workflow, publish to GitHub Pages, cut a release on GitHub Releases, and wait for the GitHub issue tracker to notify someone. Everything on the same platform. Everything under the same Microsoft roof. The r/programming thread about Ghostty leaving GitHub hit 1110 points and opened a conversation that most people shut down way too fast: "it's their choice," "GitHub is free for OSS anyway," "nobody's forcing them." Sure. And nobody forced anyone to put their whole head in the same bag for everything. That doesn't make it less risky.…