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Let's be honest, the majority here probably has a github account. Some of us are happy as a clam and wouldn't switch no matter what happened, but there are some who would and haven't yet. Why?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use GitHub as an off-site backup for personal projects for over a decade now. I don't think I'll be moving away for any reason.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My own Git server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We run our own SourceHut instance because I hate all the social dopamine crap built into GH. I hate you need an account just to participate in a repo. I hate the heavy UI (sometimes it's better than others).

Also, srht supports hg as well as git.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone creates an alternative that is federated by default, like Lemmy. But additionally it is fault tolerant, i.e. if one instance goes down, my account will still live on on another, and so will the repositories and all their associated data.

This is the world I want to live in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Self-host your git repo.

git is already decentralized.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the social features become too egregious. It's already turning into borderline LinkedIn with their new feed updates

[–] ishanpage 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you seen all the people just stuffing their profile README full of random graphics and stats and badges

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I made a similar post a while ago if you want to see some more answers - https://lemmy.ml/post/1990593

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's free and convenient? if there was another reliable, free git host with a polished web interface and decent cli for features like issues, sure, I'd consider moving to it. I'm not in the market though, I have other work to do

also the github actions workflows are brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would take a lot to get me to start using it. Git is great, and GitHub is a mess.

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you on now? Codeberg?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] onlinepersona 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you use for CICD? And AFAIK federation hasn't been implemented yet, right?

[–] alr 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this will come as a shock to a lot of people, but a lot of software doesn't do CI/CD. Especially CD. Basically only webapps can do CD, although Dropbox is close with weekly releases. A lot of enterprise and industry software still does quarterly or even semiannual releases. Hospitals, banks, and government agencies in particular have stringent vetting procedures that mean they can spend months verifying and approving a new major version before upgrading, so there's no point throwing one at them every couple weeks.

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[–] nik9000 2 points 1 year ago

I use it for work so to entirely leave it they'd have to move away. That seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mirror all my stuff on Gitlab just in case GitHub goes away, it probably won't happen but I like having backups! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As someone who has to use Azure DevOps for work, I can safely say GitHub is safe. Microsoft put so much effort into while Azure DevOps seems like an after thought to them now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Already moved in the sense that I am not creating any new projects on GH. I am rehosting old projects opportunistically. No plans to get rid of the account unless GH does something really messed up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Simple. I would switch if there was something better available. Nothing else I've tried is even close to as good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't know if anyone remembers but private repo's used to be restricted on GitHub, so I actually use BitBucket for most of my private stuff.

Feels like it wouldn't take much change for me to leave with my own stuff although some presence would always be necessary due to contributions. I don't use any of the "features" of GH though, except for pages and that's for work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My account has not seen a single commit in years now, and yet I can let it go... I still "need" it for support on an old project of mine that I share with other people, and to submit changes for projects I care about which are only on GitHub.

I also keep my account for name squatting purposes, and so people can find the link to my actual repo.

I don't think I'll go all the way to delete my account, but my projects are definitely not reliant on it anymore.

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