i am old in terms of internet years, and Bill Gates really is living proof that billionaires can essentially destroy the lives of thousands and thousands of people to gather their wealth, and then spend the autumn of their years choosing which countries or causes get a splash-out of the unfathomable excess, like a little kinglet.

i am happy his money helped fix stuff in the world. but that’s called “catching up to what has been expected of you for 60 years.” he does not get a cookie for working out of the Andrew Carnegie playbook.

i am still rooting for patch requests to become more mainstream, it seems like the best possible solution. it just needs some discoverability.

...git is federated. i'm assuming they're talking about things like issues and runners, but i don't think that's really necessary...

it's called ssh

Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy

OAuth is just making yet another account with a 3rd party authorization mechanism.

I remember Sourceforge, bitbucket, and a host of other "source" servers. GitHub was nice for a while, but its just another iteration of the same. Heck a lot of the major repos (like Linux for example) only do mirrors to GitHub. The same with codeberg, Gitlab, and other centralized services.

At my last few jobs, we couldn't host on GitHub because of HIPPAA compliance. It was fine. Self hosting git is VERY common in quite a few industries.

Soft serve by charm.sh is also fun to use. If you're a CLI junkie.

GitHub - charmbracelet/soft-serve: The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦

The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦 - charmbracelet/soft-serve

GitHub (github.com)

The closest I found that works is: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/16/radicle-an-open-source-peer-to-peer-github-alternative/

Radicle

Radicle is a decentralized platform for code collaboration, offering secure and sovereign infrastructure for developers.

(radicle.xyz)

It took a LONG time to get set up on one of my systems. It worked! Unfortunately, I found that just having git by itself was fine for my purposes. And most people are throwing in behind codeberg which is fine by me.

gog is nice. I like forgejo myself as its dead simple to get set up. But yeah both are really nice.

I've just installed and configured it, it's pretty easy and straightforward. But there are things that should be smoother, for instance I want to run my pipeline on a custom docker image hosted on the same forgejo oci registry and authentication it's a nightmare

Can't wait for the extra Product Decay

Thank you. I will have to look.

I haven't used Codeberg before so I was kind of just assuming.

I think I will make my way over to Codeberg.

iirc, gitea was forked from gogs, and forgejo is forked from gitea

yep! It a big fork family.

I have self-hosted both, although admittedly Gitlab was quite a few years ago. Forgejo is faster and lighter, GitLab is slow and huge. Unless you know you need a very specific GitLab feature, I'd go Forgejo all day.

Microsoft buying Github is the best example of the fox guarding the hen house that exists. Even better than an ad company making a web browser.

Man, I just got my personal website running on GitHub pages last week, and I'm too broke to host it elsewhere and too lazy to host it myself

I'm just waiting for Forgejo federation to be a thing, and some sort of definitive website for discovering projects. Right now, even though I do have my slefhosted forgejo instance, I still need to keep my code on GitHub, or no-one else will ever know about it.

Can confirm, the megacorp I work for just swapped from bit bucket to github

There's quite a few places that you can host a simple site for free.

Plus, linode's cheapest Nanode option is $5 bucks a month, you could spin up a very minimal LAMP stack on that.