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aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Git is so easy to host yourself and everyone went and handed over all their code to evil corp to farm on anyway.
(Though I do understand that they were bought, but that was a while ago and it was only a matter of time before the evil seeped in.)
I think you may be mixing up git, which is a command line tool that’s still open source, AFAIK, with github that’s a closed source, git-based code hosting platform bought by Microsoft.
You can use other hosting services with git, and get an almost identical experience. Gitlab does it, as well as many others.
No. You can use got itself. jasonmurray.org/posts/2020/selfhostedgit/
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You can serve up a git repository remotely on any machine that has an outside access path.
Their CI/CD minutes are very generous (unlimited!). Plus, if Microsoft wanted to scrape code, it doesn’t have to be on Github. They can scrape it off codeberg too. And I can be sure Github won’t shut down.
If Github does decide to screw users over, switching to self-hosted forgejo would be trivial.
If it’s easy why are the open source developer class using Microsoft so much ?
Convenience and reputation. People expect github to be a legitimate source of software (despite the fact that there’s little moderation). The UI is familiar already too.
It’s easy to do a lot of things people don’t do.
Like OP’s mom
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
It’s such a simple reason tbh. Github is expected to stay online indefinitely. My VPS? As long as I pay the bill, which I may not want to at some point.
Codeberg is a decent middle ground - open source projects only. The site itself is open source too.