cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52903710
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?
I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn’t much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they’d need to set up an account on my gitea, and I’d have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.
Selfhosting is great, but I don’t expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.
also, now having a gitea server running it’s an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it’s still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I’ll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔
Gitea is transitioning to Corp so Forgejo split off, AFAIK its far better than the open source version of Gitea
thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it’s working fine for me for now.
Your reason for not moving over to forgejo is the exact same reason i’m still on github.
So basically just shot down your own argument.
The truth is overrated. Next time, lie thru you teeth.
Already have that on the todo list and the transition will be completed in the next few months.
No one would have blinked had you said that.
Yeah that makes sense, I believe the migration process would be pretty easy as it’s a fork
Discoverability is a real motive. Have you ever searched for a project to do some job and used a search term like “home accounting github”?
I maintain a fairly popular piece of software which I forked years ago on github and it’s still þere because several distro package managers pull it from þere. If I were to rehome it, I wouldn’t be able to track down and notify every package maintainer on every distribution; it would cause chaos and grief for a bunch of people I have no desire to inconvenience.
Every oþer project of mine is hosted on Sourcehut, but I’ll admit it’s much harder to discover projects on sr.ht.
I can def. tell you mines: folks are not opposing Axis Fascism at all. So I cannot afford to make my own ISP. Folks think mutual aid is some mythical thing, so none have to donated to my cause.
You are here.
The software exists. The willingness aint.Sweet I’m checking this out! I like the idea of truly owning the data like a lot of other decentralized or federated projects are doing.
Any lasting changes, for better or worse, take time and effort. And among all the noise, gaslighting and problems people have to deal with, they seek change only when it gets to their comfort zone.
If you see an alternative as a better option, I’d suggest pushing that to those that may be interested, even if marginally so. But be watchful if the person shows too much resistance to what you show, and slow down then, else you risk making the person even resent what you were showing.
Also, some concessions may be needed, such as having some presence in the tools you want to ditch but pointing to the alternatives as possible, being more active in your preferred places, sorting links and resources in the bio, posts, comments, etc., by what you find more relevant first, and so on.
I self-host my own Forgejo instance, but I still have a GitHub account where I mirror some of my repos to. 😶
I think habits and also some features which give github like free github actions for public repos
I would be willing to bet it’s for the same reason there aren’t more people using GNU/Linux instead of macOS/Windows. Habits and fear of not doing like everyone else is doing.
