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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Inb4 “But it’s easier for people to join, everyone has discord”

    If someone can’t take 2 minutes to register to a forum/Lemmy/whatever they’re not going to give any good contributions to your community… Those are the same lazy bastards that create a post instead of literally googling their title and getting the answers immediately.

















  • Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.

    Self-hosting is right out for most people. It’s pretty expensive to even get started without compromising your home network (router with VLAN, switch, multiple servers (at least thinclients)), and then on top of that you need to maintain it, and can’t really ever max out your download/upload speeds because people are depending on your internet to interact with the repo.

    Gitlab is also for-profit, but also has blackouts and devs going rm -rf on the production DB. It’s often in the news for bad things, so I’ve generally avoided it.

    Codeberg is great for personal repos, but most smaller git hosting services have horrible SEO. Like I’ve had issues finding repos when searching for their exact name, if I had to use general search terms I’d only see github repos.