I wish more would use self hosted solutions like Forgejo (or a gitweb if they don't need a complex system) and simply mirror their projects on codeberg and github for the exposure.
Gentoo apparently do it that way already:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/
https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo (mirror)
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (mirror)
please everyone get the fuck off shithub kthnks
If only there was some other choice
Github has really turned to shit. Almost every time I try to search for something I get the too many requests error even if it's the first time I've visited the site in a week.
It would be nice if people could self host something like Forgejo, but the damn AI crawlers will just hammer your server until it crashes. The crawlers are really hard to block without relying on another big tech company like Cloudflare.
We really need something like https://forgefed.org/ !
Running all our own forgejo instance is well and good but this the strengh of github is not in it's feature but rather it's because it offer the largest platform. Using a federation protocol would allow users to contribute without needing one account per instances.
Monocultures are almost always bad.
It is really easy to mirror git repos though, which makes this less of an issue than most other monopolies
See it as a mirror and not full issue tracking.
I hate when I see github links. I have to open them in a private window because they wrecked my account by requiring 2fa and later claiming that there was something wrong with my email address. Worthless site.
Not to mention, MicroShaft being in charge of github is like the fox being in charge of the chicken coop.
Not because the lack of alternateves, even from the EU
https://alternativeto.net/software/github/?license=opensource&origin=eu
Deleted. Thanks for the reminder!
Would be nice to see federated PRs. Git is distributed after all!
I know the solution. Starting this year, students will be forced to contribute to a project they use, care about or, at the very least, truly want to use in the long term. Not one they found randomly on Github.
And they're still going to find things on GitHub. Because so many things are on GitHub.
They're blaming the students for the popularity of GitHub. If they want students to not use GitHub then just make that a requirement.
PSA: GitHub does not have a monopoly, you are free to host your stuff elsewhere (or yourself)
Terrible title. The article is about the risks of everyone using GitHub. That doesn't mean GitHub is destroying the open source ecosystem. In fact it's the complete opposite - GitHub massively helps the open source ecosystem. That's why everyone uses it in the first place!
Thats why we need federated solutions like forgejo to become mainstream.
About time we started referring to github as Microsoft Github. It may help people realise which basket they are putting their eggs into.
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