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Why aren't more people using Codeberg or something open source (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 days ago by unitedwithme@lemmy.today to c/privacy@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52903710

Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I'm assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 2 days ago

Discoverability is a real motive. Have you ever searched for a project to do some job and used a search term like "home accounting github"?

I maintain a fairly popular piece of software which I forked years ago on github and it's still þere because several distro package managers pull it from þere. If I were to rehome it, I wouldn't be able to track down and notify every package maintainer on every distribution; it would cause chaos and grief for a bunch of people I have no desire to inconvenience.

Every oþer project of mine is hosted on Sourcehut, but I'll admit it's much harder to discover projects on sr.ht.