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How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem (ploum.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

Yep yep yep. I have forgejo accounts on so many instances (including on my own, 2-person instance which hosts all my personal shit). I'd love to be able to jump into discussions and open PRs on other people's forges without needing a new account.

Forgejo in particular is just a fantastic forge. It's surprisingly feature-rich, and so, so fast compared to GitHub, even on very lowspecced hardware. I honestly think that if federation is properly implemented, then in the long run, GitHub will become obsolete for FOSS projects.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Sadly github will continue to exist due to being where contributors are and being easy to find. I hope projects mirrors to forgejo as much as possible noneless.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    That's what I'm not so sure about though. Forgejo/codeberg/... projects are already not hard to find through search engines. Add a federated in-forgejo search and you'd be set there.

    And currently the problem indeed is that a forgejo project is on instance X, and you, as a developer only have accounts on Y and Z. But through federation, that would stop mattering, so I don't get the "it's where contributors are": as long as contributors have a single forgejo account anywhere, we'd be good.

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