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Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

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68 points bitbasher | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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totikom ◴[15 Apr 25 07:55 UTC] No.43690122[source]▶
What I haven't seen in this post is the description of _real threat_, which comes from M$ owning GitHub.

By no means I would call them "good", but what they can do?

Delete your repo? Firstly, why would they do that? Secondly, just a backup.

>Selfhost your repo, that's not that hard.

Maybe this was true a few years ago (spoiler: no), but now, in the era of AI, shitstorm it became extremely hard.

Crawlers will constantly DDoS your servers and AI-powered not will continuously try to register to your platform.

See, for example, this: https://outage.sr.ht/ or this: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...

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1. totikom ◴[15 Apr 25 07:58 UTC] No.43690144[source]▶
Surely, it may be a bad idea, to be _reliant_ on GitHub entirely, but in the world, where supporting your own infrastructure is so expensive and time-consuming I think, that GitHub is a acceptable option.