• @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      87 days ago

      Having multiple accounts is against their TOS

      “One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that’s fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).”

      Which is absolutely stupid. I should be able to separate my work commits from my personal commits.

      That said in practice, I’m guessing this is only enforced if they detect you abusing their services.

    • Eager Eagle
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      47 days ago

      what’s the rationale of creating a new account? Just for using a pseudonym, or something else?

      • @TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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        47 days ago

        I think the use case is simply separating your professional code from your personal code. I don’t need interviewers seeing my throwaway projects.

        • Rose
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          87 days ago

          Yup. Officially, last I checked, GitHub encouraged people to use a single account for everything. But I wish they’d at least let people create multiple “personas” on the same account, along the lines of “Notorious Open Source Hacker Alias” vs “Random Code Monkey On Corporate Gig”.

    • Omega
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      67 days ago

      Are you the guy I’ve been trying to contact for months? Is this why the person with a single repo is never active?