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not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

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>> Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to
>> Codeberg.
>
> I don't know about Codeberg, but there have been lots of
> alternatives all along. Tons of projects switched from SourceForge
> to GitHub. Many projects have their own websites too, so why not
> self-host? GitHub do offer a lot of extra features for free, but
> that's dealing with the devil IMHO. Especially as the more tied in
> to GitHub-specific systems a project gets, the less practical it is
> to move away if M$ get more greedy later on.

We have no idea what the future of Github will be, so it's time to stop
investing on it.  I think we really need to produce software (and entire
systems) that we can use on a peer-to-peer basis.  Instead of Github or
Codeberg, I think we need to create a web of Forgejo, Gitea et cetera.

Similarly, NNTP servers and IRC servers instead of Discord et cetera.  I
think the best things we've done have been decentralized.  I know that
this grass roots things never look as shiny as the commercial ones, but
I'm certain that they're much better in the relevant aspects.