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> Well, if you're not part of the community, what do you care? One benefits from the availability of alternatives and a healthy market regardless.
by 0x3f 2mo ago
> Well, if you're not part of the community, what do you care?
One benefits from the availability of alternatives and a healthy market regardless.
- throwa356262 2mo agoWhen I go to a vegetarian restaurant I don't demand they serve me a juicy meat burger. We have different places with different philosophies. It is okay to be different, otherwise everything would look boringly identical. Sincerely, A meat lover and a codeberg fan.
- 0x3f 2mo agoIt's a bit of an inappropriate comparison though, since restaurants are ubiquitous and reasonable GitHub alternatives are vanishingly rare. People are quite rightly more troubled when providers in a low-cardinality space become unviable.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhat is a "reasonable GitHub alternative" exactly?
- joepie91_ 2mo agoYou can literally take the exact same software that Codeberg uses, Forgejo, and stand up your own alternative with different policies, with the only real cost being operational in nature. It seems less the case that it's a "low-cardinality space", and more that people feel entitled to other people's labour under their own terms.
- Oxodao 2mo agoGitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, SourceForge, SourceHut, and that's just from the top of my head. That's not what I call "vanishingly rare"
- 0x3f 2mo agoOnly GitHub and Gitlab have a large intersection of features. You can probably choose around one from the rest of the list, if they happen to have what you need.
- makapuf 2mo agoThey may be troubled but Codeberg owes them precisely nothing