If you work alone you can just use git local without a remote repo. Otherwise there is always self hosting forgejo (the software behind Codeberg). But I also expect there to be other hosting services for that purpose.

can’t you set codeberg repositories to private?

Try Codefloe, it has a free tier and you can host both public and private projects.

Convenience and reputation. People expect github to be a legitimate source of software (despite the fact that there's little moderation). The UI is familiar already too.

It's easy to do a lot of things people don't do.

You can serve up a git repository remotely very easily on any machine that has a remote access path.

No. You can use got itself. https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2020/selfhostedgit/

An audio diff file that explains through voice how to modify the previous code to be like the new code

Untitled.new.new.optionB.MomsVersion.final.FINALFORREALTHISTIME.jokehaha.okOneMoreEdit.typo.killMePlz (copy 2)

Yeah I don’t get how he was taken so seriously for so long by so many. I get that not every rapper needs to come from a broken and messed up background, but his verses don’t hit that hard due to all the inauthenticity, as if he did grow up on hard streets lol.

It caters more for a linear workflow, though. So modern large teams won't find joy with SVN

For what it's worth, I work at a FAANG company and we don't use branches at all. Instead, we use feature flags. Source control history is linear with no merges.

All code changes have to go though code review before they can be committed to the main repo. Pull requests are usually not too large (we aim for ~300 lines max), contain a single commit, aren't long-lived (often merged the same day they're submitted unless they're very controversial), can be stacked to handle dependencies between them ("stacked diffs"), and a whole stack can be landed together. When merged, everything is committed directly to the main branch, which all developers are working off of.

I know that both Google and Meta take this approach, and probably other companies too.

But how often do you need that for your personal projects? I just have a git repo on a server that's accessible by ssh. I only use a web frontend when I have to share with other people and then you might as well use a free third party service.

aint that just git tho? i upload my code on github as a backup and so others can see it?

Gitlab itself is American these days, legally speaking.

Try Forgejo, self hosted or one of the European hosts (some allow private projects)

True, but this kind of trend is why Fediverse platforms often stay programmer-heavy. Regular users join, see mostly dev talk even in general spaces, and bounce. I'm not really against posts like this, but I do wish Lemmy could grow its user base by keeping general spaces genuinely random.

Also, just being honest, it kind of sucks that my earlier comment got downvoted. I wasn’t trying to gatekeep, just sharing a harmless opinion about keeping the vibe more random and less tech-centered. Felt like I got shut down for it.

Reddit was like that too. Certain communities gradually became echo chambers just because one group dominated the tone. I'd hate to see Lemmy fall into the same pattern.

And just to follow the same logic—if dev memes count as “random” in lemmyshitpost, I guess I could post “what programming language should I use to build X?” in asklemmy, right? Feels inconsistent to label one as valid and the other as off-topic, depending on who posts it.