I think that it would be good to mirror the Lemmy repositories to a FOSS alternative (e.g. Codeberg)

3 years ago by Kalcifer to c/lemmy

Currently, the Lemmy Project only uses Github for its repositories related to Lemmy’s development (e.g. Lemmy, Lemmy-UI). GitHub is a proprietary service, and it is owned by Microsoft. These facts open the door for a myriad of potential issues across the ecosystem, and community. I would like to clarify, though, that I don’t think that it would be a wise decision, currently, to remove Github as the primary location for development, but I would think that it would be a good move to mirror Lemmy’s repositories to a FOSS service (e.g. Codeberg). I personally would advocate for the use of Codeberg, as it is entirely open source, and non-profit, and they are currently working on implementing federation (through ActivityPub) – all these things, I think, align well with Lemmy’s role in the wider community, and its more general philosophy. In the future, I would ideally hope for a permanent move to such a service, but, in the meantime, I think it would, at the very least, be a wise, if not only benevolent, move.


I decided to post this here, as I felt that it didn't seem appropriate to post it as an issue in any of the Lemmy repos.

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THE_ANON 23 points 3 years ago
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uuhhhhmmmm 27 points 3 years ago
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wiki_me 6 points 3 years ago

Codeberg and other alternatives are used by 2 people, if not more

It last reported it has about 400 members (people who pay money) , liberapay shows about 190 supports (and the number is slowly but consistently growing for years).

This is very frustrating if you want to report just one issue or make one pull request. Self-hosted repos are even worse.

It takes about a minute to make an account and store it in a password manager, it might be better because a higher threshold for contributing might mean a higher average quality of contributions.

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Shamot 4 points 3 years ago

Is there a problem with GitLab if used on gitlab.com? Would it be worse than GitHub?

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HKayn 8 points 3 years ago

Most potential contributors are on GitHub.

It's yet another instance of the network effect.

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