ploumHow my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
marty@ploum good write, and from personal experience, github is so inevitable.
my entire OS (#nixos) goes down the moment github doesn't like them anymore. we have our fucking package manager on github.
sometimes i think i'm more at the mercy of microslop than windows users are, and yet, i push on, jumping with joy when finding some random forgejo site hosted in nebraska where some homie has only one single repo on it and yet it is exactly what i need and sometimes i feel like adding inputs to my flake i really don't need just to have something from not github.
Daniel Gibson@marty @ploum
I think a problem with self-hosting something like Forgejo is that it's harder than it seems...
Sure, setting it up and keeping the server updated is totally doable.
But for usual open source projects you want people to be able to report bugs without much friction, which means they must be able to easily create an account or even better be able to log in at your instance with OAUTH or whatever from another page.
But that means you'll have to moderate and fight spam