Why not codeberg?
^please ^donate
Codeberg took down my torrent projects I put on there. They cited german anti-piracy laws as the reason.
Not saying they’re not better than github of course, but they aren’t the real solution and will comply fully with german law. The solution decentralized issue tracking via forgejo or something.
Missed opportunity to say “Why not Codeberg?”
We really need something like https://forgefed.org/ !
Running all our own forgejo instance is well and good but this the strengh of github is not in it’s feature but rather it’s because it offer the largest platform. Using a federation protocol would allow users to contribute without needing one account per instances.
Yep yep yep. I have forgejo accounts on so many instances (including on my own, 2-person instance which hosts all my personal shit). I’d love to be able to jump into discussions and open PRs on other people’s forges without needing a new account.
Forgejo in particular is just a fantastic forge. It’s surprisingly feature-rich, and so, so fast compared to GitHub, even on very lowspecced hardware. I honestly think that if federation is properly implemented, then in the long run, GitHub will become obsolete for FOSS projects.
one of my things with the federation is I would like a login to be able to be used with different things. log into peertube with lemmy credentials and such.
To be honest, I’m starting to drink the Sourcehut coolaid here. We have a distributed method of interacting with repositories: Email.
Don’t get me wrong, the current user experience of email-based patches and discussion isn’t great because it’s too easy to send a badly formatted patch. But if we invested time in making email patches easier to use (e.g. sending them through a web ui for people who prefer github style PRs) then we could skip all the architectural pains of solutions like forgefed.
I don’t know if email is a good solution. Having contributed to the linux kernel ( in 2010ish ) may have distorted my perception of the gitmail workflow but it doesn’t seems very accesible and i can’t possibly see a change allowing this to be usable by semi-technical users.
It is really easy to mirror git repos though, which makes this less of an issue than most other monopolies
True, but filling bugs, making pull requests, reviewing them and links to between projects ports much worse between forges.
To be fair, I think that is mostly a failure of git to take in these features to free them from the forges. Maybe radicle had a chance of fixing that, but…
Projects lose things like issue tracking, discussions which are not git features.
Github has really turned to shit. Almost every time I try to search for something I get the too many requests error even if it’s the first time I’ve visited the site in a week.
It would be nice if people could self host something like Forgejo, but the damn AI crawlers will just hammer your server until it crashes. The crawlers are really hard to block without relying on another big tech company like Cloudflare.
It’s hard to host anything public without relying on something like cloudflare.
But, what makes you say it’s “ai crawlers” rather than conventional botnets and so on? Very few organisations have the resources to train large ai models, but the resources needed to run a botnet or something are much lower.
The botnets usually try to login to SSH and pages like phpmyadmin & wp-admin looking for something they can infect rather than scraping every single page on a website frequently. Unless you do something to become the target of a DDoS attack or don’t secure your server, they usually aren’t much more than a source of log spam.
