Codeberg for the win.

If you want a cloud alternative to GitHub run by a non-profit and hosted outside of the U.S.

• https://codeberg.org/

If you want to get your data out of the cloud entirely, or at least under a VPS you control, self host your own git repo (Using the same software as Codeberg)

• https://forgejo.org/

Playing devil's advocate, it's probably more about blocking bots from creating accounts than it is about blocking privacy minded users. You just end up being collateral damage.

Obviously that still sucks, I'm just saying it's not that simple

Tell me how you really feel 😅

They also own Visual Studio Code, control VSCode, and effectively control the VSCodium soft fork.

I use codeberg.org for my stuff.

It's the same story for basically anything MS touches.

CodeBerg is the way, or host your own forgejo.

a coworker invited me to his company GitHub team or something recently, and I tried to join several times. each time, I got stuck with a 10 question test to "verify I was human". it was not quick. eventually, I had time to actually complete it without timing out.

after completing it correctly twice without success, I gave up

Selfhosted git doesn't require anything

Bro literallly posted a photo of a pile of shit, lmaoo

I can't figure out if Free software projects don't know or don't care that GitHub is run by Microslop.

Agree completely, these shenanigans are a big reason I'm on a selfhosting rampage at the minute. Speaking of, does anyone have favourite self-hosted alternatives?

If something is controlled by a giant corporation and keeping your data and privacy are offered for free, the price is your personel data.🔏

Sure but that's about 8 years too late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Acquisition_by_Microsoft

Been that way for a long time. They rejected me years ago. Much like Google, MS is in the ad business, and they want your personal details to sell to advertisers. Letting you sign up with fake account is contrary to their interests.

It infuriates me to no end that so many FOSS devs are still using Github. No one fucking cares about privacy or sovereignty until it personally fucks them.

Tons of alternatives out there

https://alternativeto.net/software/github/

What a great ad for codeberg.

I've wanted to for a while, but this post gave me the final nudge I needed to just buckle down and try selfhosting my own. Forgejo was incredibly easy to set up and my buddies and I are already successfully collaborating on a project that I've moved over from Github. So thanks for making your rant post, you made a difference

Tangential to the main point you're going for: when you say fingerprint or biometrics I think you're referring to passkeys.
Passkeys don't share any of your fingerprint or other biometric identifiers with anyone.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/passkeys-and-privacy

One of the major design criteria of their creation was to be an increase in security without sacrificing privacy. It's made them more finicky to get working but there's a very good reason they're very popular with security professionals.

Use codeberg. I stopped using github for my projects a while ago.

I downvoted for the image. If you're going to make a text post, make a text post.

codeberg

Fuck computers they're war machines.

Btw, CanvasBlocker actually doesn't do much more than default Firefox nowadays but breaks more things.

No need for that massive pile of shit

My college has a Microsoft email account they just gave me but It says I need to download an unrelated app to log in. I don’t really want to do that

I’m curious when this happened. I literally created a new account for GitHub this week, only using an email address, and on Firefox. No wonky tests or anything needed.