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arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkIndia blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trollstorrentfreak.comMoonrise2473@feddit.it to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoGood news. Hopefully this will help to finally break the de facto monopoly of Microsoft’s GitHub and bring the distributed aspect of Git - away from gatekeeper platforms - back into the foreground.
minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoBased …but this will realistically just spawn some new mirrors and proxies because the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away. Anyway, I am doing my part! (With my irrelevant profile)
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months ago the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away. That’s what they said about Sourceforge though.
minus-squareAtmaJnana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoGithub probably won’t shoot themselves their userbase in the dick quite as spectacularly as Sourceforge did, though.
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoAt least they’re less obvious about it.
minus-squarecrank@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoTo be fair there are still oodles of projects there. I end up on source forge regular basis.
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoOne of the reasons might be that the number of SVN hosting facilities has decreased over the past two decades.
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoOh, come on. It wasn’t that bad! At least it granted (and still grants) the freedom of choosing which VCS shall make your day harder than necessary.
Good news. Hopefully this will help to finally break the de facto monopoly of Microsoft’s GitHub and bring the distributed aspect of Git - away from gatekeeper platforms - back into the foreground.
Based
…but this will realistically just spawn some new mirrors and proxies because the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away.
Anyway, I am doing my part! (With my irrelevant profile)
That’s what they said about Sourceforge though.
Github probably won’t shoot
themselvestheir userbase in the dick quite as spectacularly as Sourceforge did, though.At least they’re less obvious about it.
To be fair there are still oodles of projects there. I end up on source forge regular basis.
One of the reasons might be that the number of SVN hosting facilities has decreased over the past two decades.
Sourceforge 🤮
Oh, come on. It wasn’t that bad! At least it granted (and still grants) the freedom of choosing which VCS shall make your day harder than necessary.