@codepo8 I need food and drink. Nobody needs GItHub (or its host, Microsoft). So that's a really bad analogy.
At that time (around 2022) I was using Cloudflare's Warp. And if you tried to use sourcehut back then while using Warp, it would block you, to make a statement about how Cloudflare should not have so much control over the internet and yada yada.
Now, on one hand, I agree with the statement. These days I try to use Cloudflare services as little as possible, especially due to their recent vibe-coded outages.
On the other hand, I find this unprofessional. Even if I agree with the message, this artificial restriction left me with a sour taste. I believe they removed this restriction sometime around 2024.
Besides that, I cooled down to the idea of a minimal git forge. The thing is, if you want really minimal — working over mailing lists like linux kernel etc, you don't need a forge, you can host it yourself (especially since sourcehut doesn't provide a free tier — which I don't blame them for, but worth mentioning).
Git forge should be accessible for as many ppl as possible to contribute to FOSS. PRs are easier to get into than patches over mail. But maybe that's just my opinion.
GitHub alternatives: I'm less educated on evils of github (I'm yet to read stuff that @mogi sent me: https://nogithub.codeberg.page/, https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/)
But I think I know where people are coming from. The 2 big alternatives I've heard of are codeberg and sourcehut (gitlab is rather for corporate use).
Codeberg seems like a solid project that mirrors most of github functionality without the evil parts. I also know that @forgejo (that codeberg uses) works on implementing ActivityPub protocol which is awesome.
Sourcehut on the other hand is more unique, which is why I liked it more at first. But then something rubbed me the wrong way...
Please don’t upload my code to GitHub This is a call to free/libre and open source software developers to not upload the work of others to GitHub. What’s the problem with GitHub? Well, there are a lot of problems with GitHub. Here, we will mainly focus on a feature called Copilot, but if you’re interested to learn more about the other issues, please visit this page. What is Copilot? According to GitHub,
Slightly unrelated to all the usual things: I am now trying out #sourcehut with a few projects and opted to become a paying subscriber.
https://sr.ht/ has this nice feeling of being clean, and purely work focused. I have not found any of the usual sales buzzwords on their site yet.
Plus, it all also is fully open, and runs local too if you so desire.
I do love #forgejo but this one is going to be for learning and expanding my horizon a bit.
Cannot believe what an absolute sparkly crapfest #github has become since the #microsoft acquisition 💩
#gitlab #gitea #forgejo #codeberg #sourcehut #bitbucket
Any/all of these are better than github 🪦
Something I genuinely deeply dislike about #email is that there isn't a way for a list's moderator to mark a message as spam once it has already been delivered to subscribers.
Context: Got hit by another GitHub comment notification masquerading as an official GitHub email.
But this is not unique to GitHub, all the mailing lists I've been on that had a spam problem - or worse, had people posting violent or disgusting images - could only resort to telling subscribers: "Hey, don't open that message from yesterday. I hope you didn't already do it." The whole thing is a pretty glaring #moderation hole.
If I want to have an async development workflow, is there a way to eg. set up (a mailng list on / an instance of) #SourceHut such that it's as resistant to targeted harassment as a more centralized forge / messaging platform?
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