GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@
[email protected]).
Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:
- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments
Everything moved. Nothing left behind.
https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps
Was just about to post this before @[email protected] beat me to the punch. 🙂👍
Why are so many projects still on Microsoft-owned github? They should follow OM’s lead.
Visibility :/
No one goes for source unless they have recommendation or use it and it wouldn’t matter in those cases where it is hosted.
Lot’s use Github, but it doesn’t matter. Lots hate Microsoft too.
Github is basically social media but for tech nerds. Social media networks naturally monopolize, as they primarily have value because everyone else is already there. If you put your project on Github and it is popular you might get 2k “stars” and regular pull requests. If you put your project on an alternative you might get 10X less of both. So people make decisions about the trade-offs between exposure and avoiding Microsoft
I think we all know this, but it’s the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.
Organic Maps said not to blame this on Microsoft but rather on US law
I’ll just go ahead and take the liberty of blaming both.