Comment by mindcrash

2 days ago

Or even better, claim full sovereignty (again) and install Forgejo (https://forgejo.org/) on your own hardware.

You'll get the same experience as Codeberg, because Codeberg is in fact running on Forgejo

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beeb  2 days ago

People aren't on these hosted platforms only for the git experience, they are for the social aspects and discoverability too.

sunshine-o  2 days ago

For hosting and publishing your code maybe.

But the power of Github is more the social platform and collaboration at global scale.

In that sense the only mature alternative I know is Radicle

- https://radicle.xyz/

  • hnlmorg  2 days ago

    This is what people forget about GitHub. Its popularity isn't because it has the best tools on the market. It is popular because of the network effect. It's the social network of developer tooling.

    I don't really want to be using a Microsoft product but I use github for the same reason I use Linkedin: because it benefits my career to be visible on these social networks.

    • yencabulator  2 days ago

      Yes, that's why everyone is still on Sourceforge. I too check Freshmeat regularly for updates.

      It's time to move on from Github, LinkedIn, and hell ideally NPM too. Microsoft is polluting the ground water.

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hinkley  2 days ago

I have PRs open on five different OSS projects at the moment. My throughput is being limited by trying to remember all the details of PRs I filed 3-6 weeks ago.

I thinK I have to admit to myself that as little as I like github having all the projects, I'd be less effective having to track inboxes across half a dozen different hosting platforms.

If you made something like Mastodon, where alerts propagate across instances, I could probably deal. But without that? No, I'll pass.

  • anglesideangle  2 days ago

    The problem with a federation system like mastodon/activitypub is that relying on propagation hurts usability and discoverability. [tangled.sh](https://tangled.sh/) is to federated forgejo what bluesky is to mastodon, where it relies on atproto to have decentralization without sacrificing ux

    • rapnie  1 day ago

      There is an ActivityPub protocol extension that is specific to federation of code forges, called ForgeFed. It is an NLnet funded project, that receives funding through EU Next Generation Internet programs. But the project is struggling, because of a lack of community help and implementers giving feedback to help steer and mature the specs.

      https://forgefed.org

taxborn  2 days ago

It’s a great piece of software. I set it up in a Docker container, and have a few of their CI runners on a couple machines I own. Great experience so far.