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How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem (ploum.net)
submitted 8 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

https://forgejo.org/

Would be nice to see federated PRs. Git is distributed after all!

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

PSA: GitHub does not have a monopoly, you are free to host your stuff elsewhere (or yourself)

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, and for most of us it's easy to do so, but I'm not going to explain a noob how to add new repositories. I mean, I did, and I will do in the future, but it's not my favorite task to do.

I realized my comment was a bit ambiguous. I meant repositories like for Maven, NPM, or package managers. Having stuff on GitHub makes it a lot easier.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I know the solution. Starting this year, students will be forced to contribute to a project they use, care about or, at the very least, truly want to use in the long term. Not one they found randomly on Github.

And they're still going to find things on GitHub. Because so many things are on GitHub.

They're blaming the students for the popularity of GitHub. If they want students to not use GitHub then just make that a requirement.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Terrible title. The article is about the risks of everyone using GitHub. That doesn't mean GitHub is destroying the open source ecosystem. In fact it's the complete opposite - GitHub massively helps the open source ecosystem. That's why everyone uses it in the first place!

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not quite. GitHub used to help the open source ecosystem. Since it's been taken over by Micro$lop it's gradually been shifting towards exploiting it.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

Maybe slightly, but it's still way on the helping side.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Sounds more like it became a trojan horse.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

yes, and add in Cloudflare gatekeeping vast swaths of websites and you've got yourself a real shitstorm