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848 points thefilmore | 1 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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reddalo ◴[13 May 25 05:56 UTC] No.43969945[source]▶
Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2].

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

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danpalmer ◴[13 May 25 06:02 UTC] No.43969969[source]▶
I would argue that part of "truly caring" about open-source is being where the contributors and community are. That's probably a large part of the move to GitHub, and neither of these other options would achieve that. As much as one can say "git is distributed, the server doesn't matter", the centre of the community very much does matter, and for better or worse that's currently Github.
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1. arccy ◴[13 May 25 08:16 UTC] No.43970689[source]▶
If you maintain a popular project, you'll quickly find that github prs are a massive source of spam and low quality prs with people that don't even bother to follow up.

Bad PRs all around, with just a constant stream of drive by "why no merge?!?!?!" comments.