• Mechaguana@programming.dev
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    1 hour ago

    Would be nice to get the names of alternatives, always irked me that the biggest repo for open source projects is privately owned

  • a1studmuffin@aussie.zone
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    7 hours ago

    It would be great to see a Fediverse GitHub alternative. Obviously we have plenty of self-hosted software forges around, but I’m not aware of any decentralized network solution. Allow people to host repositories on an instance, but be able to search, discuss and contribute to repositories across the entire network. That way you’d get the benefits of a large programmer community without needing to centralize to a single company or organization. Maybe this already exists and I’m unaware.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m probably gonna switch from Codeberg, I just can’t rely on a service that’s down all the time or takes literal minutes to load a repo page.

  • Already done.

    I mean, you have to use it to get software; and if you’re submitting patches to other people’s software; and I have inherited maintenance of a popular project that would just confuse a ton of people, including several distros, if I moved it. But I never create projects in github anymore. Sourcehut has been great.