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If not Github, where would you host your projects? (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45047387

Title...

I'm kinda disgusted with Microsoft and Github has been declining into an AI-Centric hellhole, to the point my recommendations are almost exclusively AI related... And let's not forget, the new Copilot Training enabled by default (which honestly, how do you get rid of this thing, VSCode also feels intrusive with AI-First bullshittery)

I've been wondering about moving to Gitlab but.... "Finally, AI for the entire software lifecycle." is literally plastered in the landing page. So.. that feels like a no-go.

Codeberg is very decent, it's based on Forgejo so ActivityPub is also a thing (but is cross-instance contributions possible?) but it's exclusive for Source-Available and Free Projects, which, by all means, totally fine! Half of my "active" projects are for free, and are open source (does that make them FOSS even though I'm basically the only dev?)

And last but not least, Forgejo and Gitlab themselves are self-hostable, but...how expensive (price and storage) would it be to self host a Git Forge??

And maybe I'm being narrow-sighted... For FOSS projects in Github, sadly I'll have no choice but to contribute there, if that's the only place where the project resides, same for Gitlab, and Codeberg* (unless cross-instance contrib is a thing)

For now, I'm thinking of moving FOSS/OSS projects to Codeberg, but for personal projects? What are some good options?

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[–] goober@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems weird nobody even mentioned Bitbucket

[–] kvadd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it really weird? Bitbucket is owned by Atlassian.

[–] goober@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's weird to me since it exists and it works but there's not even something like "there's Bitbucket but, you know, yuck".

Maybe I missed a requirement that it be open source? If so, then I'd fully agree with you - not weird at all.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It works. As long as it's not a Thursday. Or any other day with a 5% chance or so.