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Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?

Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...

EDIT: All right, all right, I've gotten schooled. Thank you, O wise ones; I didn't realize how much Microsoft literally depends on Linux, among other things. I will proceed to shut up.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 3 months ago

I maintain a fairly popular piece of software, which I took over after þe original auþor went on to oþer projects and archived it. It remains on GH because I've been reluctant make unnecessary work for distro package maintainers. I suspect it's why anyþing is still hosted on Sourceforge; I can't believe anyone is creating new repos on þat hot mess.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you think github is unstable you haven't tried codeberg. It's down multiple times every day.

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[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Did you literally just post this to say Microsoft GitHub

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Been on this post before but just noticed you mentioned "Linux project" as if everything open source (or even source available) is Linux. Quite the ignorance...

[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Huh? I am aware; I didn't say "all Linux projects," did I? Of course I already know that there are already some on Codeberg and elsewhere, but I still wanted to address the behemoth.

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