Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.
Examples
If Microsoft were to release a competing link aggregator; then they could persuade GitHub (Microsoft’s subsidiary) into locking or removing the main repository for Lemmy’s source code.
If that happens
git remote set-url origin newurlNot saying self hosting the remote is not a good idea, just that the risk you mention is not so dramatic
Yup, Microsoft can’t relicense the code, it can merely make it inconvenient to access on their platform. It’s really a non-issue.
Codeberg.org would be a good option, especially as it runs on Gitea which is working on enabling ActivityPub federation right now.
or a self-hosted gitea instance maybe ?
We already have both of those, self hosted gitea and codeberg.
That’s an extra cost though
It also has many nice features like pages etc.
I agree! There is also forge friends.
I believe the devs host their code on multiple repositories including Codeberg.
Yep, we have 3 code mirrors.
I’d happily push for moving our issue tracking off github once a federated alternative becomes stable.
I’m looking at you Gittea.
Oh. That is good then. A lot of free and open source projects are still hosted on proprietary services, like NewPipe.
I entirely agree, but there’s currently limitations with selfhosted forges. It’s hard to ask everyone who wants to report a bug or submit a patch to create yet another account on yet another forge. in that sense, mailing list driven development is very good.
i personally would suggest to wait until gitea supports federation: as soon as it becomes possible to receive contributions from well-moderated forges like codeberg.org tildegit.org forge.chapril.org (or even gitlab instances like 0xacab.org if forgefriends project is successful) then it will be very interesting for a broad project like lemmy to have its own forge. in the meantime, we’re stuck in this status quo where we all need a github account and i think in the specific case of lemmy it’s a fair trade off
Codeberg! Codeberg! Codeberg!
codeberg.org is a gut replacement for github. github got taken over by microsoft.
