Katerina MarchánMay 19, 2025

In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:

Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?

I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?

Boosts and ideas welcome!

If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org

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Show threadCodebergMay 19, 2025

@zkat You might get more people from our community onboarded if they don't need to join #Discord in order to participate. 😉

Most people over here are on #Matrix, #XMPP, #IRC or #Signal.

Show threadnetworking wizard catgirlMay 19, 2025

@Codeberg @zkat honestly i am still waiting for a good alternative to discord...

  • matrix has... a whole laundry list of issues - https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

  • xmpp has no good cross-platform desktop clients (especially on macos!), and requires clients to store history to navigate that history in any usable way (meaning, to view messages from a month ago, most clients require that history be downloaded + saved locally in my experience)

  • irc is missing features that many people nowdays consider essential for a messaging app, ie. file/image uploads built-in, and stuff like markdown formatting, while it may be supported by individual clients, isn't exactly a standard feature

  • signal's ui sucks, the desktop client is unstable as fuck (ie. i frequently get crashes on it when opening it, that don't go away until I sign out - by clearing the applications data - and back in)

for the time being i would rather just use discord with the caveat that it would be ditched later once something better comes along, and if possible, with the discord server's messages scraped and imported into whatever the chosen chat platform would be

why not matrix?

at this point it seems like most of the tech community is familiar with matrix, the "open network for decentralized communication". lots of projects and communities have migrated from a host of other platforms, including irc, discord and slack with the promise that their new spaces will be free forever. i first discovered matrix in 2021 and have dedicated a lot of time trying to understand exactly how it works, as well as trawling through github issues to try and understand whether we should consider matrix…

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@pearl @Codeberg @zkat

> irc is missing features that many people nowdays consider essential for a messaging app, ie. file/image uploads built-in, and stuff like markdown formatting, while it may be supported by individual clients, isn't exactly a standard feature

ftr there is people working on standardizing those things for ircv3, we've got chat history, and there's the soju extension for file upload, so while it's not there yet, i do think it'll eventually be

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either way for a movement like this one, i do feel like a forum (e.g. discourse) would fit a lot better than any sort of chat platform, it's slower paced, provides better topic-separation, and it's less likely for things to get lost in a sea of instant messages
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