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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Git is so easy to host yourself and everyone went and handed over all their code to evil corp to farm on anyway.

(Though I do understand that they were bought, but that was a while ago and it was only a matter of time before the evil seeped in.)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    It's such a simple reason tbh. Github is expected to stay online indefinitely. My VPS? As long as I pay the bill, which I may not want to at some point.

    Codeberg is a decent middle ground - open source projects only. The site itself is open source too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If it's easy why are the open source developer class using Microsoft so much ?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Their CI/CD minutes are very generous (unlimited!). Plus, if Microsoft wanted to scrape code, it doesn't have to be on Github. They can scrape it off codeberg too. And I can be sure Github won't shut down.

    If Github does decide to screw users over, switching to self-hosted forgejo would be trivial.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think you may be mixing up git, which is a command line tool that's still open source, AFAIK, with github that's a closed source, git-based code hosting platform bought by Microsoft.

    You can use other hosting services with git, and get an almost identical experience. Gitlab does it, as well as many others.

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