Yes, skill issue. You are complaining that you search for “where to find source code” and complaining that the vapid useless SEO-optimized articles that you find do not mention codeberg? Your search query sucks. Search for <tool> source code or similar instead.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

unless you search for it or a repo that lives on it explicitly

Skill issue indeed. Reading comprehension, specifically.

Let me spell it out:

You won't find Codeberg in searches unless you know it exists already, or already know of a specific tool that is hosted there.
Euro-Office creators probably want people to discover their tool as much as possible.
Hosting the tool on a platform that doesn't come up in searches due to its relative obscurity is therefore a bad idea.
Euro-Office creators chose not to do that.

the vapid useless SEO-optimized articles that you find

"This year will be the year of ~~the Linux desktop~~ Codeberg!"

[–] ugo@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t need to know that foot is hosted on codeberg. Searching for its source code reveals that it’s hosted there.

I do not need to know that euro office is hosted on github, searching for its source code reveals that it’s hosted there.

If you search on github itself that is your fault. If the goal is digital sovereignty for europe, hosting code on an american-owned forge when a perfectly viable european one exists is idiotic.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

foot... Searching for it

euro office... searching for it

Whether you like the SEO-driving search engine providers or not, they are still the way that most people find things on the internet, and they prioritize Github results. When you're not searching for "it", but just searching them by describing things like it, (of which there are many, mostly on Github), it serves your interest to 'O' for the 'SEs' by putting it somewhere that will get prioritized higher.

If the goal is digital sovereignty for europe

Sovereignty is exercised and evidenced by a state's ability to enforce the laws they have created. Microsoft operates within Europe. As long as Europe can enforce their laws upon Microsoft (as they can and do now), that relationship is still an exercise of European sovereignty.

Back to my first comment in the thread, "sovereignty != isolation". Cutting yourself off from external groups does not make you "more sovereign" or something. If Europe cannot enforce their laws upon foreign business entities operating in their jurisdictions, and thus choose to prioritize Europe-headquartered businesses, that would be evidence of far weaker sovereign control of their jurisdiction.

Now, if it's just a matter of prioritizing supporting European businesses, (call it, say, "Europe First", or maybe "Make Europe Gr..." oh wait) that's fine for them to do, and supporting any smaller business or organization over a large one is almost always preferable, but that isn't and shouldn't be about the perception of sovereignty or about nationalism, it should be about fighting back against corporate power by not rewarding these de facto monopolies and political meddlers and manipulators with your business.

But once again, that's not within the scope (or ability) of a simple Office-alike application.

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not showing that they were wrong. You're showing what they already said.

[–] ugo@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but what they said is meaningless. Searching for <tool> source code is how you would search for tool’s source code. Not “where to find source code”

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the code mirrored on GitHub?
If yes, you are right. It's a skill issue of web searching

If no, you are wrong. It's sort of like searching for a reddit community for lemmy by searching "AskLemmy lemmy.world".
(The goal is to highlight that AskReddit was essentially forked to AskLemmy and made it's own thing that is only on Lemmy)

[–] ugo@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago

You clearly haven’t read what I wrote. I wrote that the EU could have set up the repo on codeberg and a mirror on github for visibility. Instead they chose to host on github which is unjustifiable.