• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    15 days ago

    Codeberg is great, but let’s not pretend that it’s a replacement for GitHub. Notably they don’t allow private repos and can’t offer free CI (not in the same way as GitHub anyway). Plus, I don’t see how they would be immune to the slopnami either if they became popular.

    Best case would be if GitHub survives and just improves their reliability. I would not be surprised if they start imposing some kind of stricter limits on free accounts though.

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 days ago

      I fundamentally disagree on your conclusion.

      Codeberg is a non profit under German law. There won’t be openai “non profit but not really” bullshit.

      And your point about CI Integration ins good example: There is no “free” CI. GitHub lets you pay with their vendor lock-in and your data.

      If that’s okay with you, that’s okay with me - but as a programming community as a whole ,especially FOSS side, this needs to go away.

      The best case for me is that GitHub dies and its death is a wake-up call to decouple collaboration layers in a way that keeps them modular enough to not again rub into “too big or integrated to fail”.

      And yes, I’m aware that this is 2/3 day dreaming. But that’s my best case association anyway :D

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          14 days ago

          That’s fair it has loss leaders and network effects more so. The vendor lock in is non-git, non-ci side. So issues, orgs, etc. Actually you can see where they embraced opensource vs extending solely by the degree it is vendor locked.

          If they stole it, it’s a loss leader, if they made it, it’s vendor locked.