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this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
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Sigh, here we go with the shittyness.
It's okay. We need to move some shit off GH anyway. They're basically a monopoly on FLOSS code.
They aren't. C'mon, Jack.
Yeah? When was the last time you clicked on a "Source Code" link and got anything other than a link to GitHub or a direct download of a tarball?
Sure, alternatives exist -- I could name half a dozen right now -- but no one uses 'em.
I run into the occasional Gitlab-hosted project. Problem is, Gitlab's equally obnoxious in its own way.
"No one uses them."
C'mon, Jack.
Lemmy even uses github.
Think about that for a moment.
It's 10-20x more searched for than Gitlab, and even more compared to smaller alternatives
Ok. But alternatives exist and users have choice. If Github fucks up tomorrow, a user exodus can be triggered just like that. It's not too hard to migrate from it.
Plus the open source code space is vast. Huge. And the means of distributing it are quite diverse.
It's been this way since 2016