@fribbledom I'm currently looking for a place to go after having moved to GitLab. I mean, for me, it kind of doesn't matter, but I just am not interested in having my stuff on GitHub, or GitLab, any more.
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It appears there are ads, but for copilot and other first party things. If there's third party ads, then I'm gonna move my site's repo to an alternative.
@fribbledom There are times I just have to get away from the https://sdf.org/?join out https://sdf.org/?join. #SDF provides a lot of free resources that I find enjoyable, entertaining and ad-free. You can run down a #gopher hole, peruse #bbs among many other things. It’s digital detox for modern day #internet users 😉.
@fribbledom@pfm I hear people are quite happy with Codeberg, which is at least run by a non-profit organization (e.V.). They run Gitea, which means that federation may come in the future.
@fribbledom@pfm Yes. To be clear, I am not advocating that handling these things should be done informally over whatever medium is available and without any organization (as is discussed elsewhere in the thread).
I might proffer that the primary alternative system that exists currently to GitHub's issues, PRs, and discussions are mailing lists. Before GitHub, they worked fairly well, and Sourcehut's email-based attempt at rivalry has picked up notable steam in certain communities.
@fribbledom@pfm I had been quite fine with gitea even without federation, but strange you should ask... there are at least two in very active development; forgejo and gitlab ;).
@fribbledom@pfm There's been attempts like https://sourcehut.org/ where it uses email for managing issues, mailing lists for discussions and pull requests and the like. email is kind of federation I suppose. Saying "I don't want to leave this unfederated problematic platform for another less-problematic unfederated platform" seem like a weird take to me, though I'm probably missing something.
I guess email is federated, yes, but it's really not the UX I'm looking for when working on issues & PRs.
While I do run my own gitea instance for some things, switching to another unfederated platform seems futile to me. The only thing that would achieve is forcing users & contributors of my software to sign up for yet another account to participate.
@fribbledom@pfm I really like the way the #Guix people handle their project. One can clone the code, do ones work and then send in any patches to their issue-tracker – via e-mail! No account needed.
It can't really get any more federated than that. 😉
@fribbledom Everything is ad space, its just a matter of time before they push it in there. Just stop using GitHub already, it's a pile of bloated shit even when there's no ads yet.
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