Alex KretzschmarIt’s time to consider leaving GitHub. The community aspect no longer truly outweighs the harm of feeding the corporations models.
Self-hosting Forgejo is easy and free. #selfhosting
Casey Liss@ironicbadger I don’t particularly disagree with your thesis here, but genuine question: I consider GIthub to be — in part — an offsite backup. Does that not give you the willies, if you’re hosting in-home?
(This is leaving aside the obvious answer of “host on Hetzner then, you worry wart”)
@caseyliss kind of.... but with git having local copies of everything anyway it's not too hard to have one on your laptop, one in a vm somewhere, another on a desktop, and so on. In fact, now I think about it my source code is likely one of the _most_ backed up things I have!
@ironicbadger Hah! Touché!
Though I would posit that this is true only if your devices are regularly doing `pull`s.
I don’t mean to “☝️ well actually ☝️” you; this is something I’ve been kicking around myself and haven’t come to a conclusion about.
@caseyliss Forgejo (and Gitea from which it is forked) have a scheduled sync option to pull in upstream changes from mirrored repos elsewhere. until we get full activitypub support that's a pretty good backup.
Have multiple Forgejos!
Have multiple Forgejos!
nicholai@caseyliss
Centralised git is a problem in general, but there are really good alternatives. Codeberg is popular, but there are many smaller instances from different groups, collectives and other such initiatives.