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Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by mamcx »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

Everyone seems to be leaving GitHub, and forgetting the entire spirit of what git is in my eyes. Git was always meant to be decentralized, the problem here is that all the tooling around git was centralized to GitHub because it was a cleaner experience, they scaled nicely, and were properly maintained. I would prefer to still see mirrors on GitHub that are auto-synched because I've seen projects for years either self…

"Git is decentralized"

Because is a kind of filesystem.

How a TEAM operate IS NOT.

And that is the point of Github.

There is no escape to the coordination problem!

(And if you say mails, patches, and other asynchronous ways: same thing, more complex)

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by grim_io »

wutwutwat wrote: post #82
grim_io wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see a reason anyone needs to stop and evaluate their life for this reason. Is it a danger to anyone, or damaging in any way? I think not.

Does one have to be a danger before they should evaluate their life? I sure hope not.

I don't feel comfortable telling anyone they should evaluate their life for such a silly reason.

Can? Sure. Should? Very questionable.

I'd call your statement more "extreme" than any of the stallman's statements on software.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by wutwutwat »

echelon wrote: post #81
wutwutwat wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you come into a convo saying even Stallman isn't extreme enough, it's probably a good time to take a step back and evaluate your life.

I'm actually a capitalist. But our 25 year lax regulatory environment has created a world where the largest players abuse consumers and the competitive ecosystem. Open source is one of the many strategies these companies have abused to create grave harm to our society. It's let them get further with our support and with less expenditure. It's given them an ethical smoke screen. - Social media algorithms are the tobac…

I hope you find your peace.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by bombcar »

dominotw wrote: post #78
delf wrote: post #12

In "What I gave up" section author mentions his social graph. It is possible to take your social graph and collaboration history using GitSocial. It also allows cross-forge pull requests between any git hosts. All without 3rd party dependencies.

github is a social network. git hosting is just a minor feature. thats why none of these alternatives ever take off .

People keep saying this, but I’ve never used the social aspects of GitHub beyond not having to create a new user for a new project.

If the projects I am interested in are elsewhere I’ll meet them where they are.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by bombcar »

jviotti wrote: post #85

GitHub Actions is indeed the hard one to replace. I need Windows, Linux, Linux-ARM, macOS ARM, and macOS Intel runners. How do you guys using Forgejo and/or Codeberg do to get a similar matrix, hopefully at a low cost?

Can you push from Forgejo to GitHub for actions until you can find a replacement?

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by wutwutwat »

grim_io wrote: post #92
wutwutwat wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does one have to be a danger before they should evaluate their life? I sure hope not.

I don't feel comfortable telling anyone they should evaluate their life for such a silly reason. Can? Sure. Should? Very questionable. I'd call your statement more "extreme" than any of the stallman's statements on software.

surethingderbud

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by Fraterkes »

I do mostly enjoy all this moving to European tech because the thing being replaced is usually owned by Microsoft.

I do kind of worry though: there's a broad trend of countries trying to become less reliant on eachother, and in my mind the long period of peace we've had in much of the west this past half century has partly been because we're all in business together.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by chknkachunga »

I wish Microsoft would treat GitHub a little differently. Leave it alone and let it be it's own thing. Maybe if enough customers leave they will backtrack.

As a long term GitHub customer, I see many practical and personal reasons to move away from the platform. I've seen a handful of similar posts lately. A few years ago this would have felt totally fringe, but now all of a sudden it really doesn't. For now, for me and many others GitHub still works great, and is very convenient. But the alternatives are getting even easier to self implement all the time.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by bombcar »

senko wrote: post #68
nottorp wrote: post #62

What if you don't want to self host? Who offers low feature git hosting for a small price? Something like the old $7 account before github was bought by MS? All I want is hosting and a read only web interface, plus access control in case I have collaborators. All the offerings are enterprise priced because they offer "minutes of CI", "AI assistants" and other icing on the cake.

This is literaly just a bare repo over ssh, and a gitweb interface. It's too trivial for anyone to be selling that. And I don't think there's a large market for $5-$10 barebones setup when GH is free and you can self host.

Just like pikapods supports running things like actual budget for you - https://actualbudget.org/docs/install/pikapods

Something similar from them or digital ocean or linode or Hetzner would be a win.

Pika does offer Forgejo and Gitea.

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