Brutkey

nixCraft 🐧🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social

Once upon a time, SourceForge was a leader in FLOSS code hosting. It lost the battle to GitHub and others. Now GitHub is part of a bigger corporation with a questionable history. I guess history repeats itself. This is why FLOSS folks should build its own core infrastructure with 0 dependencies on big tech.

Maybe good folks from the EU can provide grants. I don't know, and I don't have answers to all the questions, nor can I (or anyone) predict the future.

Arnaud Launay
@asl@mastodon.launay.org

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Given the EU wants to read everything and push for EU citizens to have no privacy at all... https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲🇺🇲
@CWSmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

End of the day, any centralized repo will be at risk. Unfortunately the truth is maintaining digital infrastructure costs a lot of money.

Microsoft bought Github, still requires projects be open source and forkable, but also scans for AI. I won't talk consent because depending on the License there might be a loophole there.

Truth it the best way is to do with repos the same thing we do in Federated systems. A lot of small servers maintained by a team that can afford the time and money to do so.

SonstHarmlos
@SonstHarmlos@sueden.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I've just moved to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de and it's a great service if you just want to host some small Git repos for your side projects. Didn't test the advanced functionality yet.

nixCraft 🐧🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social

@CWSmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com that is cool idea


@bemyak@gts.bemyak.net

@nixCraft@mastodon.social @CWSmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com There's even a cooler idea, which doesn't require maintainers: p2p repos where a "star" means reseed the repo. And wouldn't it be cool if issues is the first-class feature? And it's all already implemented and ready to use! Welcome @radicle@toot.radicle.xyz