This is about getting issues to the devs, not hosting a copy of the code. Git is easy to self-host and that’s what I do with my own repos.
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Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
“anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I’m posting here and hoping for the best.”
It’s more about efficiency and prioritization of actions than anything else.
Could the devs spend time and effort migrating the code to another repo, such as Codeberg? Yes. Would the benefits be worth the time and effort? Debatable.
You can just create a throwaway account for GitHub. Not ideal, but devs have said multiple times that they don’t have the time to track feature requests elsewhere than on the GitHub (and it makes sense)
Alternatively, if having code on a FOSS repo is very important to you, you can request it on codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/, the repo for piefed.social
solrize@lemmy.world 5 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
My suggestion is if you’re not willing to get heavily involved in the process of re-hosting the code, then you should just go along with the system the lemmy devs have chosen, which includes github.
By posting the feature request here instead of github, you’re volunteering other people’s time to improve things.
Generally speaking, if you want to make the world a better place you should volunteer your own effort and resources, not other people’s.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Well put
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I know I’m getting off-topic, but the last time I tried this it ended up being locked either because it didn’t like a simplelogin email or because I didn’t give it a phone number. Hopefully that was an edge case but I haven’t tried again recently.