There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.
@anildash you didn’t ask but Codeberg/Forgejo exist and are already an alternative, if not the fully realised decentralisation story just yet, they’ll get there ✌️
@janl @anildash I've started using Codeberg in earnest and it's legit really good. tbh the only parts that are really lacking are the CI story (Codeberg doesn't have a massive amount of free resources to burn money on), and PRs aren't federated (yet! They're actively working on it! You'll eventually be able to, say, send PRs from Codeberg forks to Gitlab upstreams!)

@zkat you can run runners on your workstation or any other machines you have access to!

@janl @anildash

@xyhhx @janl @anildash yeah, sure, but if you want something for an open source project where others can run jobs, you need to kinda figure out your own hosting and install the runner yourself, etc (plus pay for it)

@zkat you can have org-wide or project-wide runners as well for those too. setting up a runner is exceedingly easy, honestly

and even codeberg's instance runners are enough more often than not

the real thing forgejo lacks imo is job summaries. you could probably try to work around this with a bot account but then you really start broaching on "you should consider hosting your own instance"

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