No mention yet of Radicle? I'm curious if anyone's tried it for a real-world project.
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
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Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not an effective argument, given that these smaller services are uniformly retrograde in functionality.
When cars started replacing horses, they didn’t have more features. They just didn’t get sick or temperamental, and they didn’t shit all over the streets.
Going more than 20 miles an hour and not dying of heat exhaustion (or because your oats are too dry) are pretty big features.
But my point was that it’s a bad analogy. People are opting out of GitHub despite the alternatives having fewer features. You can read that as an ideological choice or as a YAGNI one. If it’s ideological, then there’s no competitive or feature angle at all; people are doing it because it seems right to them.
(To be clear, I have no problem with this. I think GitHub only gets better after public pressure, as we’ve seen with the last N cycles of product atrophy.)
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#203I tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human. Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people…
codeberg's one job gets interfered with by freeloaders hammering expensive views (like git blame) inconsiderately.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except the article doesn't prove any trend
Stackoverflow usage didn't fall overnight either. But it has gone the way of MySpace and Oracle.
> the way of myspcace and Oracle
Oracle had record revenue in its most recent fiscal year, with record user engagement. So whatever connection you're trying to establish between its fate and that of SO or myspace is off-target, both in terms of popularity and revenue.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#205No mention yet of Radicle? I'm curious if anyone's tried it for a real-world project.
it's definitely a cool esoteric thing :) I bet some other features would make it gain traction.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
how switching to an alternative like codeberg would prevent it? ti can be scraped as well
It's a losing game to try to keep any FOSS code completely isolated from large scraping data sets. All you can do is never share it, or share it and eventually it'll get consumed by the machine. Spend your time making better software you and your friends can use... don't waste the time trying to stop others from making another painfully average codegen machine.
Or just stop making FOSS code
Starve the greedy beast
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#207I see a lot of self hosting based a whatever solution but I don’t see any nice GitHub proxies to avoid rate limits while just simple reusing actions.
I use zot within my ci for containers and an apt proxy but I’m missing a solution for github api calls for my ci runners
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#208The recent abrupt removal of the ability to see who has starred a project isn't a good move. Things like this certainly erode trust.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
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Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#210I left because Github became too LLM obsessed and I find that to not align with my personal ideals. Its not really deeper than that. The programming community will continue to splinter more into those that care about the craft and those that only care about outcomes.