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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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[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's for private repos only, so if you cloned public repos that wouldn't count towards the limit.

And it sounds like it's total for your whole account, you can read about it here:

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests

Storing private repositories is allowed for things related to Free Software, or small content like personal notes. It is limited to 100 MiB per user.

And: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories?

Codeberg's mission is to promote free/libre software. Keeping software private is obviously not our primary use case, but we acknowledge that private repositories are useful or necessary at times.

  • If you are a contributor to free/libre software projects, we allow up to 100 MB of private content for your convenience. Use it for your personal notes, your side project or any other you want to keep private.

So yeah, my unity projects with paid assets are ostensibly "side projects", but 100MB is less than the size of the unity project file or blender assets. So if I can't use codeberg to keep my unity projects, and I can't use it to contribute to projects that live on GitHub (like Immich), or to host forks of projects for the original authors to see where the original repo and author is on GitHub, I basically can only use it to mirror projects that I want to "put out into the world" with no specific audience in mind. And for that purpose, so few people ever actually come across my projects that I feel like I might as well just email them to myself.

The biggest use case for using GitHub for me is to interact with people and projects that are on GitHub.