In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.
  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s owned by Microsoft and they’re doing this with all their products at this point.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I think sometimes people forget that one of the main features of Git is that it’s decentralized. You don’t need Github; just push your repo to a different remote.

    Everyone that clones the repo (usually) has a full copy of it, including all history, and theoretically you can clone the repo directly from their copy. Of course, that’s often not practical, which is how we ended up with these centralized services.

    The main issue with losing a Github repo is the auxiliary non-Git-powered features of Github, like issue tracking.

        • Linearity@piefed.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Because it’s going to implement federation soon
          Nobody is going to sign up to your website just to post an issue on one repository. Federation is perfect for software forges.

        • russjr08@piefed.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Depending on what your needs and available resources are, GitLab is fairly heavy especially in comparison to Forgejo.

          • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Fair! Mind you, the question was genuine curiosity. I don’t have projects of my own hosted at this time, but I may soon.

            • russjr08@piefed.zipEnglish
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              2 months ago

              No worries at all! I battled with that choice for a while when I was self hosting. I had already been so deep into using GitLab CI that it would’ve been a pain to migrate to Forgejo Actions, though to be fair when I had setup GitLab the Actions system didn’t actually exist yet.

              And if you plan to expose it to the Internet, GitLab being a much larger project has more potential security issues to keep up with which is another important note.

              (Though as always when publicly exposing services to the Internet, keep up with patches either way and stay safe!)

        • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Maybe I’m just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab’s features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It’s why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.

  • boundsoul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    and Won’t Explain Why

    They’ve made it pretty clear. They’re banning porn because being a dumbass puritan is all the rage nowadays (and they probably want to avoid accidentally training their precious AI on porn). Seems like it’s not well automated, though. Quite a few NSFW repos are still up. Probably requires manual user reports or some such.

  • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So that’s why Australia initially included GitHub, on the list of “social-media” platforms to be banned under 16?

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sweet. I hope forgejo et al become more popular.

    I strongly encourage Microsoft to keep making all their products worse while destroying user trust. It’s a brilliant strategy that can make the world a better place.