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Good GitHub alternatives? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Im probably not going to switch anytime soon (ive been on GH for over 10 years now), but I wonder if there is something like a Github Alternative?

With all the takedowns (open source or otherwise) occurring lately, I would rather like my code to be somewhere safe-ish.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are smaller services that have not been taken down and have been around for over a decade. It pays be under the radar.

Plus I don't want to put all my repos under just one service. GH is good don't get me wrong, but if it ever goes under or starts doing sketchy things that I don't like, I need an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My experience is not much flies under the radar anymore - this stuff is heavily automated and even legitimate content is often accused of infringing (I've stopped buying stock photos for example... because using them is likely to result in being accused of copyright infringement and proving you purchased a license is far more effort than they are worth).

https://github.com/github/transparency/blob/main/data/dmca/dmca_takedowns_by_month.csv

That's their DMCA takedown report (there is also a "transparency center" with pretty charts)... hundreds of takedowns every month, with some of them fought and re-instated. I'd bet smaller sites don't have any reinstatements. It was last updated 4 months ago, hopefully another update is coming soon.

Definitely a good idea to have eggs in other baskets but there's a pretty good chance all of them will be taken down at once and GitHub seems like it'd be more likely to come back if you have a defensible case.