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Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 day ago by unitedwithme@lemmy.today to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Regarding Codeberg:

  • Codeberg only services free and open source projects
  • There are other limitatiosns:
    • They don't provide a free, well designed and isolated CI like GitHub does
    • The space of Packages/Registry is limited
  • As it's quite niche there are a lot less people on that platform in general
  • Although GitHub is under fire for their uptime: The uptime of Codeberg is quite comparable to GitHub, when having a look at the functionality that both platforms have in common.

Regarding self-hosting:

  • Too expensive / time intensive for most devs that just want to code
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

are you using all those qualifiers for the CI together, or separately? Because they absolutely have free CI

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well it's "free" but it quite a lot of caveats, restrictions and requires signing up.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

you seem to have missed that forgejo actions exists, and codeberg provides free runners with no particular restrictions, just asking that you be mindful of your usage.