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?

  • GandalfDG@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn’t much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they’d need to set up an account on my gitea, and I’d have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.

    Selfhosting is great, but I don’t expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.

    also, now having a gitea server running it’s an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it’s still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I’ll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔

      • GandalfDG@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it’s working fine for me for now.

        • logging_strict@programming.dev
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          3 days ago

          Your reason for not moving over to forgejo is the exact same reason i’m still on github.

          So basically just shot down your own argument.

          The truth is overrated. Next time, lie thru you teeth.

          Already have that on the todo list and the transition will be completed in the next few months.

          No one would have blinked had you said that.