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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] Krafting 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yet most project uses GitHub too you know...

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one is a bigger issue. One of the projects I used to contribute to moved to Gitlab, and saw a significant decrease in organic contributors. GitHub simply has more users, better SEO, and a better ecosystem

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I'd like for everything to be on Codeberg or something but I guess that's far away.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True but GitHub wasn't always Microsoft and at least in my experience moving between git providers is a pain

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GitHub has been recognized as harmful to the free software community at least as early as 2015, years before the Microsoft acquisition. See RMS email on GitHub.

[–] MrPoopyButthole 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is more than enough freedom in GitHub to set a license as you see fit. Stallman is being obtuse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

GitHub allows you to select any license (including a proprietary license) or no license at all. This does not mean that GitHub encourages one to select a free software license or any license at all.

In 2014, John Sullivan, then Executive Director of FSF, also asserted that GitHub's choosealicense.com was anti-copyleft.

Anti-copyleft bias noted by Stallman and Sullivan is evident from the very beginning, from the founder Tom Preston-Werner himself. In 2011, Preston-Werner wrote that one should "open source (almost) everything" under a permissive license, because the GPL is "too dogmatic," but keep "anything that represents business value" proprietary.

[–] aleq 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is it a pain? You just change the origin on your existing project, and new projects you just use the new one to start with.

[–] Roshakk 23 points 1 year ago

The pain is with the migration of a ci/cd template to another

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You gotta change the origin on every deployment you have. Update environment vars, reconfigure tools. You have to port all your PRs over somehow. Your issues. Your documentation. All the access keys. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With Gitlab embracing activitypub, at least the issues can bei easily migrated now/soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they embracing activity pub? I read it is just one guy in the community working in it.

And the vast majority of users are on GitHub, looking for code on there. Having activity pub on other forges will not change that big time:-(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ony saw this vid about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68NFdZIMKI

Yeah, github is currently the big cheese. But other forges are still out there and are being used. And since git is an open format, the infrastructure is (a bit) more resilient towards enshittyfication.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=v68NFdZIMKI

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, the repository are easy to move.

The bug reports, PRs, wikis, CI/CD are stuck in github though. There is a huge lock in.