Abandon Microsoft. Move to Codeberg.
Edit: Spellings
Edit2: setting up a git server takes about 20 mins if you have a machine with disk space and a domain or static IP.
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I have literally account in codeberg, gitlab, gitea. Are there any more? I host my projects in all of them lol
Why so many?
Codeberg mentions this: "On Codeberg you can develop your own Free Software projects,..."
Does this imply developing commercial software etc is against their ToS?
In general yes.
Codebergs base software is forgejo, which is open source, developed by the company behind codeberg. It is generally wanted to deploy your own instance of forgejo to build commercial software.
This is further supported by forgejos current progress to federate git servers with the fediverse standard. This would allow people on codeberg to open issues and pull requests on commercial instances.
I've been waiting for that progress to materialise. Although I really want it to work, it has taken so long now that I doubt it is taken seriously and thus I start to doubt they will keep maintaining it once it does land.
For most commercial software you don't need federation though, so for most you can just spin up your own instance.
what i've yet to understand is why nothing seems to have ever shipped, not even a trace of federation.
it's like every time someone attempts it they refuse to make an MVP, instead they work and work until it's 100% ready and just before finishing they have a heart attack like in monty python and the holy grail
what i would do is take an existing project and start by just federating a simple view of repositories, along with likes. Just get something out there so people can see things are happening.
Fully agree. I presume it's way harder than it seems. https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md shows some things as done and many as WIP. Perhaps there's a demo server somewhere with which we can experiment?
It is taken very seriously. There are still monthly reports, also the usual monthly updates specifically mention federation and stuff that was done that month like federated following of users and HTTP signature validation.
Interesting, it does look like there are license restrictions on the faq.
Commercial software can still be free ;) don't do closed source. License fees are so 1990s...
*codeberg
Whoops.
I've also been spelling iceberg wrong my whole life too!
I do use the home feed. Every time there's a new release of a repo it shows up. And I follow the repos of my dependencies. So it is an easy way to be notified when one updates.
Imagine if they had a usable notification system. It would be glorious.
This is Microsoft we’re talking about.
True, but the damage to community features was done long before the buyout.
The top repositories part is also useless. It never shows me the one I want!
Does anyone actually use the honepage? I just go straight to the repo I want and navigate from there, or type a conpare or commit url directly. I've never checked my notifications, not really sure what they're for tbh
I've literally never seen the homepage before. In a similar fashion I go straight from the search engine to the repo.
Sometimes I forget there’s even a homepage, after months of never seeing it. Then I’ll need to login or something and see it and be like, “wtf is this? Did I go to the wrong website?”
is enshittification an american desease?
It comes from the capitalist disease which has been made by the USA, so I guess yes.
what would fit better though?
a big random cat photo
My active PRs, my active repositories, latest activity on issues I'm subscribed to, browsing repositories by interest/tags/topic. Maybe some of these things are already on the front page but, off the top of my head.
"Hey I just wanted to add an update to my issue I've raised 5 mins ago"
Github: good luck!