cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52903710
Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?
Genuine questions. I’m assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?
Because there hasn’t been enough discomfort to disrupt established workflows yet.
I remember when Sourceforge hit that tipping point. Microsoft and Gitlab likely do too.
I am not really the target of your question, because I am not a developer of something in particular. I mainly use git to backup and track my Linux and Docker config. There are a few unfinished side-projects as well, but nothing really interesting. I personally chose Gitlab over Codeberg mainly because of the ability to create private repos. The repos don’t contain any private info but I don’t saw any real benefit for the general public either. However, this decision was a couple of years ago.
As of late, I want to use git also for other stuff that potentially contains data I am not willing to share. Therefore I want to setup my personal Forgejo instance. I like the idea of Codeberg. My goal is to host everything I really want to keep private on my personal instance and move everything else to Codeberg.
I just setup Forgejo on Yunohost myself. I’m very green to all this git stuff though.
- Codeberg allows you to make private repos.
- They don’t like being used as external storage, as this is not what they’re providing this service for to the community. I think the same applies to GitHub and Gitlab, that using them as a external storage is not very ethical and may violate the ToS.
- A personal Forgejo instance for duch purposes would be a good idea.
