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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation (www.theverge.com)

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 84 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Or your own server. But yeah this is not so good for the rest of us. They are doubling down on AI.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Self hosting for your own needs is great but you won't get the "drive by" contributions you get from shared platforms. On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So what you're saying is that we need federated git.

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[–] kybean@pawb.social 31 points 1 year ago

Forgejo, the software project powering Codeberg, is working on adding federation but it's got a long way to go before it's a usable feature

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 1 year ago

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

https://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.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Huh. Gitlab just said it's too hard with their cut staffing numbers and they're not doing federation.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

As in the federation of Forges, like Forgejo is trying to do

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 1 year ago

yeah that's what i don't really understand. they're like building a separate layer on top of git, when things like fossil exist.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Gitlab just said

...git is federated

If you read it again, you may find I said gitlab and not just git.

And we won't talk about how git's decentralization is nothing like the concept of federation as it's being used in this entire discussion.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago

we arleady had this discussion further down a few days ago

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, IRRC thus far they only have starring (not unstarring, mind you) implemented and it's not even in main yet

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago*

I mean, this is more-or-less how the Linux kernel is managed. Linus just has final say on what gets released.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.

So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu -1 points 1 year ago

it's called ssh

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy

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

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[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, but you don't have to worry about the password

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