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Great move away from GitHub, as shared by @cass! 🥳

I read her post via my RSS feed and saw my post about switching to Bunny mentioned (thanks for linking my guide, Cassie)! If you're still using GitHub for your source codes or for hosting your free static site—definitely reconsider alternatives.

https://cassie.ink/friendship-ended-with-github/

#GiveUpGitHub #leavegithub #LeaveGithubAlready #GitHub #bunnynet

Friendship ended with GitHub | cassie.ink

Since last year, this blog has been running on Hugo. For a while, I used a repository on GitHub that would build and deploy to GitHub Pages. Microsoft is currently targeted by the BDS campaign, which is enough of a reason to minimize or outright eliminate my use of their services (even free ones). GitHub also has a contract with ICE and has whole-heartedly embraced AI, which means anything — including my shitty code and nonsensical ramblings — on their platform is fed to Copilot. Suffice to say, there are a number of reasons to move away from it.

Nils Goroll 🕊️

GPN Aug 11, 2024

@howtogeek https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/ #LeaveGithubAlready

Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was now, itself, a proprietary system, and antithetical to FOSS. FOSS communities learned that it was a mistake to allow a for-profit, proprietary software company to become the dominant FOSS collaborative development site. SourceForge slowly collapsed after the DotCom crash, and today, SourceForge still refuses to solve these problems0. We learned a valuable lesson that was a bit too easy to forget — especially when corporate involvement manipulates FOSS communities to its own ends. We now must learn the SourceForge lesson again with Microsoft's GitHub.

Software Freedom Conservancy

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Nils Goroll 🕊️

GPN Dec 22, 2023

@bagder @|all stop using platforms with such incentives.
i just noticed someone's auto-generated "my year on github" video. 🤦🏻‍♂️
seems like "too embarrassing" does not exist any more.
can we please try to work without all these instant gratification dopamine pumps?
#LeaveGithubAlready #leavegithub

Christian Pietsch (old acct.)Jul 2, 2022

Die Software Freedom Conservancy (#SFC) ruft alle Free-Software-Projekte dazu auf, #GitHub zu verlassen. Völlig zurecht! Spätestens seit MS GitHub aufgekauft hat, sollte man es meiden.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/

https://gnulinux.ch/github-aufgeben

Die studentische AG „Freie Software“ an der #UniBielefeld hat das zum Anlass genommen, ein Flugblatt zu kreieren. Da wird u.a. die #GitLab-Instanz empfohlen, die ich für die #UniBi betreiben darf. Dafür bin ich sehr dankbar, weil wir noch nicht viel Werbung für sie gemacht haben:
https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
Sie steht allen Bediensteten und Studierenden der Uni #Bielefeld offen.

#FOSS #FLOSS #LeaveGitHub #LeaveGithubAlready

Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was now, itself, a proprietary system, and antithetical to FOSS. FOSS communities learned that it was a mistake to allow a for-profit, proprietary software company to become the dominant FOSS collaborative development site. SourceForge slowly collapsed after the DotCom crash, and today, SourceForge still refuses to solve these problems0. We learned a valuable lesson that was a bit too easy to forget — especially when corporate involvement manipulates FOSS communities to its own ends. We now must learn the SourceForge lesson again with Microsoft's GitHub.

Software Freedom Conservancy