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1. Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 02:58:59 UTC Fabio Manganiello

   I the beginning there was (mostly) Github.

   Then it got acquired by Microsoft, it started taking down repos and accounts at every whim, it started violating FOSS licenses by training their closed models on our open code, and I started self-hosting my Gitlab instance instead.

   Then Gitlab enshittified, its open offering started falling apart and serious bugs were left open for months, it started to aggressively push users to their cloud offering, it even embraced openly hostile practices (such as deleting repos and accounts that hadn't been active for a few months), and I migrated to Gitea.

   Now Gitea is also enshittifying, providing features in Gitea Cloud that aren't available on the open core (one example, a stupid limitation on the maximum number of users allowed on a server, when it's my own fucking business to decide how many users I want to store on my own database on my own machine), and probably it won't take long before they start pushing their users to migrate to the cloud version by breaking even more basic features on their open version. So I'm in the process of migrating to Forgejo.

   Luckily I have enough technical skills to migrate things around and even patching code. But just because I can it doesn't mean that I should. Especially when the trend is that of a code forge migration per year just because all of them have decided to enshittify and are trying to upsell me stuff that I either never asked in the first place, or that was given for granted and it suddenly became a premium.

   I just want to have a service to upload and share my own open projects, I'm fine to run it on my own machines with no customer support involved, and I'm fine to even contribute to their codebase. I'm not asking much. I shouldn't go through so much trouble. I haven't been always so hateful towards the techbiz, but the techbiz has made me so embittered because business people keep breaking *our* tech on a daily basis and force me to invest all of my time and energies in seeking alternatives.

   I seriously just want all these business parasites that have taken over my industry gone and dead by now. I fucking hate every single one of you.

   • Santiago (santiago@mastodon.uy)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 02:58:58 UTC Santiago

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     @blacklight if not gitea, which other similar project do you recommend?

   • Santiago (santiago@mastodon.uy)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:30:59 UTC Santiago

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     • Félix 🌩️

     @blacklight read this @felix great advice Fabio, thank you very much.

   • Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:31:00 UTC Fabio Manganiello

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     • Santiago

     @santiago Sourcehut is also an option, but IMHO it's too minimal and elitist. It belongs to that "we're elite h4x0rs that use 1990s interfaces and only communicate over email and we only use command line interfaces, and we expect everyone to do the same" suckless-inspired purist school that eventually pushed a lot of people away from many interesting open projects. But if Forgejo also had to go down the enshittification road in the future (I trust nobody at this point), then I guess the options would be between Sourcehut and coding my own source forge.

   • Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:31:01 UTC Fabio Manganiello

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     • Santiago

     @santiago I'm now in the process of migrating to #Forgejo, which is supposed to be a fully FOSS fork and drop-in replacement for Gitea - let's see how long this lasts before pushing all of its users to their cloud offering too...

   • Santiago (santiago@mastodon.uy)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 03:33:10 UTC Santiago

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     @blacklight i see many projects use Mercurial, like Prosody, Honk and others. What's your take on Mercurial?