Comment on Yeah
aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 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.)
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.
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
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 days ago
No. You can use got itself. jasonmurray.org/posts/2020/selfhostedgit/
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
🤯
aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You can serve up a git repository remotely on any machine that has an outside access path.