This looks neat, so the repositories are distributed across the people who run the radicale nodes? I've been self hosting forgejo for a while, wouldn't mind trying this out just for fun.
I said its one of the reasons behind the network effect, not the network effect itself. github can offer more freebies, which attracts more users, which makes it more attractive to other users and for existing users to stick around.
Yes, and for most of us it's easy to do so, but I'm not going to explain a noob how to add new repositories. I mean, I did, and I will do in the future, but it's not my favorite task to do.
I realized my comment was a bit ambiguous. I meant repositories like for Maven, NPM, or package managers. Having stuff on GitHub makes it a lot easier.
I know the solution. Starting this year, students will be forced to contribute to a project they use, care about or, at the very least, truly want to use in the long term. Not one they found randomly on Github.
And they're still going to find things on GitHub. Because so many things are on GitHub.
They're blaming the students for the popularity of GitHub. If they want students to not use GitHub then just make that a requirement.
Terrible title. The article is about the risks of everyone using GitHub. That doesn't mean GitHub is destroying the open source ecosystem. In fact it's the complete opposite - GitHub massively helps the open source ecosystem. That's why everyone uses it in the first place!
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Olap@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 203d
https://forgejo.org/
Would be nice to see federated PRs. Git is distributed after all!
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 202d
https://forgefed.org/
ugo@feddit.it · 8 pts · 203d
hosaka@programming.dev · 2 pts · 202d
This looks neat, so the repositories are distributed across the people who run the radicale nodes? I've been self hosting forgejo for a while, wouldn't mind trying this out just for fun.
ugo@feddit.it · 2 pts · 201d
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 203d
PSA: GitHub does not have a monopoly, you are free to host your stuff elsewhere (or yourself)
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 202d
Google "network effect"
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 6 pts · 202d
Relatively minor for source code forges.
The reasons everyone uses GitHub:
If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 202d
Codeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 2 pts · 202d
They're clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io · 4 pts · 201d
Which is one of the reasons behind github's network effect.
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 2 pts · 201d
That's not a network effect.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io · 2 pts · 201d
I said its one of the reasons behind the network effect, not the network effect itself. github can offer more freebies, which attracts more users, which makes it more attractive to other users and for existing users to stick around.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 3 pts · 202d
Yes, and for most of us it's easy to do so, but I'm not going to explain a noob how to add new repositories. I mean, I did, and I will do in the future, but it's not my favorite task to do.
I realized my comment was a bit ambiguous. I meant repositories like for Maven, NPM, or package managers. Having stuff on GitHub makes it a lot easier.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 202d
And they're still going to find things on GitHub. Because so many things are on GitHub.
They're blaming the students for the popularity of GitHub. If they want students to not use GitHub then just make that a requirement.
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 13 pts · 202d
Terrible title. The article is about the risks of everyone using GitHub. That doesn't mean GitHub is destroying the open source ecosystem. In fact it's the complete opposite - GitHub massively helps the open source ecosystem. That's why everyone uses it in the first place!
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 201d
Not quite. GitHub used to help the open source ecosystem. Since it's been taken over by Micro$lop it's gradually been shifting towards exploiting it.
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 0 pts · 201d
Maybe slightly, but it's still way on the helping side.
PokerChips@programming.dev · 2 pts · 201d
Sounds more like it became a trojan horse.