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Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source (lemmy.today)

submitted 6 months ago by unitedwithme@lemmy.today to c/linux@programming.dev

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Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I'm assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

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[–] belazor@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Federation doesn’t fix the problem, at least not in its entirety. I posted a longer comment in another thread but the long and short of it is that accounts need to be portable if it’s going to work for a git hosting solution.