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Codeberg has a lot of restrictions regarding private repositories and... complicated verbiage regarding what licenses they want for public repositories.

For public repositories... do you think that MS et al can't already scrape all of that?

I am all for telling MS to go fuck themselves. But it is important people actually understand what they are and aren't getting in terms of privacy and the like. It is like how people still sometimes pretend that the completely open site where just about anyone can run an instance has LESS ai scraping than a reddit.

i just wanted to drop my personal favorite self-hosted git alternative, Gogs (gogs.io). i have very modest git needs (i just need a place to host code and interact with the git client), and i think it fits the bill well.

i am not associated with it at all, i just want folks to know that self-hosting your own git service has really never been easier or better; there are so many good options, like a similar project, gitea.

if you are uncomfortable with exposing your home network to the internet, you can use tools like tailscale funnel or a reverse proxy server like caddy and a $5 VPS from any cloud host of your choosing to obscure your home IP, while still keeping the storage and the brains somewhere closeby.

imo, the only way forward for all of us to stay safe is to keep repeating a simple mantra: “let’s go back to making websites.”

It was dead when MS bought it. Software developers aren't immune to denial.

Long live Microsoft 365 Copilot CodeShare Professional

I didn't have many but I'm pulling all my repos from GitHub.

Or your own server. But yeah this is not so good for the rest of us. They are doubling down on AI.

There's plenty alternatives.

• Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
• Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
• not to mention git's own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.

I would like to but I do want some private repos.

Maybe self hosting is the best move from here on in.

I’m only surprised it took this long.

Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!

Now if only they could work that magic on ICE and IDF. (Microsoft is in bed with both.)

I believe that's probably why they specify in the headline "at Microsoft" rather than just "independent."

You can have an independent division within a company that doesn't get orders from the company's main CEO, or you can have it be fully under that person's oversight. It used to be a separate division with its own management, now it's not, thus it's no longer internally independent.

Our company runs everything on Azure. We use windows PCs, Visual Studio Professional, C# .Net, outlook, teams, etc.

We make enterprise software and I am happy really. I wasn’t at the start but as time goes on I don’t care, I do my job and go home.

I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.

We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.

W.T.F.

what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?

Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming

Just move to codeberg or a similar site.

Git has always been decentralized. That was one of its purposes. Sites like GitHub, Gitlab, etc actually went against the grain and centralized them; I personally believe this helped popularize git back in the days of CVS and Subversion being the two most popular version control systems.

Git patches were made to be email friendly as a means of distributing code between developers — it’s how the Linux kernel does it (or did, I’m not up to date on their current practices).

Time for community git to somehow be federated like lemmy.

Already being worked on for a while. It's called ForgeFed and being developed by Forgejo (the software powering codeberg). It's an extension to the ActivityPub protocol, which is also powering the fediverse.

Side note, now that GH is in Microsoft “CoreAI” it just feels even more gross than before.

My data is front and foremost the product.

I’ve been self hosting forgejo for a few months and it’s pretty nice plus low maintenance. It does all the stuff I care about. I might have to just make a public instance and figure out how federation works or join codeberg or something.