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[–] artyom@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Getting it off GitHub is usually enough to effectively kill it.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I'm literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Oh well if you archived it then its not dead!

[–] michael@piefed.chrisco.me 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn't care are becoming popular.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

What makes you say that? Probably 95% of FOSS projects I see are still hosted on GH.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, github, a division of MicroSlop?

There are alternatives, which will become more popular as it becomes more and more obvious that they are just part of the US national 'security' apparatus.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

No, I meant GoodHank. The younger, better version of Hank Hill.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe 95% of your FOSS projects aren't "free" enough ;o

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

They're not XD

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago

I should clarify, self hosted Gits for projects that may fall under targeted harassment by corporations (Eaglercraft, Switch Emulators, etc...) are becoming popular.

Ryujinx, operating out of Brazil, couldn't be taken to court by Nintendo. So a lot of projects that could have Nintendo's eye of sauron on them are looking for a safe country and self hosting as guaranteed insurance from a Yuzu situation.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber in that regard

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Primary hosting, but they can always have a fallback for at-risk projects or even just use p2p. Of course that already increases the risk of a potentially hacked provider/repo or just fake/malware versions in the wild

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They'll need to proactively clone it to a non-github repos before its shutdown.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter if they clone it or not.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? Why is it harder to get it from codeberg or even self hosted forges?

It's not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github

[–] artyom@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not harder to get it from there, it's harder to get contributors.

It's not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github

They absolutely do, that's why devs are always begging for "stars".

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Until someone puts it back…