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Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org)
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[–] Mechaguana@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Would be nice to get the names of alternatives, always irked me that the biggest repo for open source projects is privately owned

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

It's a little lower in the article

  • Alternative Hosting Services:

  • Self-Host (or join a group that self-hosts). A few options:

    • Gitea
    • GitLab Community Edition (note, the GitLab Enterprise Edition, which >is provided to the public on gitlab.com, is (like GitHub) >trade-secret, proprietary, vendor-lock-in software)
    • SourceHut
[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 17 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It would be great to see a Fediverse GitHub alternative. Obviously we have plenty of self-hosted software forges around, but I'm not aware of any decentralized network solution. Allow people to host repositories on an instance, but be able to search, discuss and contribute to repositories across the entire network. That way you'd get the benefits of a large programmer community without needing to centralize to a single company or organization. Maybe this already exists and I'm unaware.

[–] kahnclusions@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

There’s also Radicle

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 hours ago

Forgejo is already working on federation https://forgefed.org/

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We really hope that codeberg and forgejo is accepted and used more!

[–] adamnejm@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm probably gonna switch from Codeberg, I just can't rely on a service that's down all the time or takes literal minutes to load a repo page.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 8 hours ago

Already done.

I mean, you have to use it to get software; and if you're submitting patches to other people's software; and I have inherited maintenance of a popular project that would just confuse a ton of people, including several distros, if I moved it. But I never create projects in github anymore. Sourcehut has been great.