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GitHub has always been generally a platform that doesn't align well with my and many peoples' values regarding open source software development, I only used it because it's the most popular.

Recent events regarding GitHub and its management have raised a greater consciousness about the nature of the service,so I was wondering if it would cause any problems for me to move to either:

  • codeberg.org
  • a selfhosted forgejo instance (git.phtn.app)

Or if everything is fine as is.

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[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

I mean, i'ts your project. It's your baby. You do what you think it's best for it.

I don't think GitHub userbase number is going to drop dramatically any time soon (same thing with shady-associated services like Reddit, WhatsApp, you name it) but I'd bet everyone who would think about contributing to Photon already has an account in Codeberg (me!) or has the means do collaborate in Forgejo.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago

Both is fine, but in the short term Codeberg is probably the better option. Once Forgejo adds AP federation, a selfhosted instance is probably the best.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

It's a tough question. Lots of people use GitHub because they want "stars". They want their project to trend so that it gets more attention, and thus more users, and thus more contributors, thereby making it a better product.

That being said, if Photon had zero improvements moving forward, I'd still be very happy, so my vote is yes, abso-fuckin-lutely.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I don't feel too strongly about it either way, but I do think codeberg would be a better idea than a self-hosted forgejo.

[–] cole 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The magic of git is that if something happens it's trivial to switch. Honestly, I would just stick on GitHub until there's an actual reason to change. You can just do git remote set-url origin NEW_SERVER, do a git push and bam, your repo is restored with all of its history.

It's so easy to move, it's not worth worrying about imo

[–] Xylight 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only difficult part is moving pull requests and issues.

It would be kinda funny as an excuse to run away from the issues tab though

[–] cole 1 points 2 days ago

it's not so hard. you can just link previous PRs for comments, and re-home them. you can make a PR cross-platform it just won't necessarily render right in the web UI.

git is stupid powerful. reject web UI return to email list (Linux kernel vibes)