Github dislikes email “aliases” so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a “valid” email domain but also that you remove the “alias” email from the account completely.

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Github is unfortunately the premier platform for collaborating with others to build FOSS. Until alternative forges support federation, any other forge is usually a dead end.

        • toastal@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          Is this why Freedesktop, GNOME, KDE, Haskell, & others self-host their GitLab community editions? These must not be the real FOSS projects.

          • coolkicks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Sure, self-hosting is a great option for very large projects, but a random python library to help with an analytics workflow isn’t going to self-host. Those projects, along with 27,999,990 others have chosen GitHub, often times explicitly to reduce the barrier to contribution.

            Also, all of those examples are built on thousands of other FOSS projects, 99% of which aren’t self-hosting. This is the same as arguing only Amazon is a bookseller and ignoring the thousands of independent book publishers creating the books Amazon is selling.

            • toastal@lemmy.ml
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              9 months ago

              This isn’t to say every project should self-host, but that they could self-host. And if you don’t want to self-host, you can join groups like Notabug, or a server hosted by a foundation like Codeberg, or the privately-held SourceHut, or even the open-core GitLab with its free tier (tho publicly-traded, most of the source is open & one can run the community edition if they wish). To assume if not self-hosted GitLab CE, then one must use a closed-source, US-based, publicly-traded, megacorporate, social media + code forge platform that’s trying to monopolize the developer tooling space is a false dichotomy.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      The pull request model Microsoft GitHub force on users ends up being a colossal waste of everyone’s time & it’s the only model offered. It’s also a social media platform which encourages star hacking, READMEs that are actually RENDERMEs, focusing too much on making ones graph green, etc. that are bad for project quality & mental health IMO. This doesn’t sound like a “premier” platform but the result of lock-in & network effect. The way to break is to go host elsewhere… & since Git is a distributed version control system, this should be encouraged.

        • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          Because the projects I want to contribute to are on Github, not some other forge. Also, I don’t want to create accounts on dozens of forges; each with their own settings and whatever; I also don’t want to have to put contributors to my projects through that, so if I want external contributors, Github is pretty much my only choice.

          I don’t like it but until federation between forges is a thing, Github it is.

            • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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              9 months ago

              Yeah, they’re gatekeepers. We know. Even EU regulators have noticed and are finally making baby steps on cracking down on them.

              Though just as with Twitter and Reddit, we need a resilient decentral OSS alternative for this to work. That’s in the works as we speak but it’s not here yet. It’s like trying to give up Reddit 3 years a go; there was no viable alternative.

            • Krafting@mamot.fr
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              9 months ago

              @arbocenc @Atemu it’s not because it’s the most used thing that it is good and you should use it too, exactly!

              Corporation are not your friends, remember that

        • toastal@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          Or SourceHut, or self-host cgit or Forgejo. Hell, why run Git when Darcs & Pijul are awesome.