A curious irony in the fact a great many of the free and open source platforms championing digital sovereignty are themselves utterly infrastructurally dependent on big tech apparatus GitHub, itself owned (and mined) by the ruthless and closed source market monopolist Microsoft.
We're gaining ground fast, but we've still got a way to go in the truly sovereign platform space. To use is to support, and that means any point along the supply chain.
Shout out to @Framasoft for walking their talk on this one. They show the way.
@Framasoft This is not to throw shade on those small teams and developers using GitHub. Moving home's not always easy, esp given for many GH is their CV. It felt like a setup - GitHub was this welcome intersection of social networking and development that then got bought by the corporate equivalent of Cthulhu.
But for FLOSS associations and nonprofits receiving funding to build alternatives to digital feudalism, it's different. Building atop GitHub points to an unfortunate mission incoherence.
@JulianOliver Github as CV is so true. Had a job application recently ask for my GH profile. Had to say “Sorry, it only exists for PRs into software like Nextcloud. For portfolio work, look here; for code, here’s my personal Forgejo. Except a lot of that is private and my recent professional work is locked down under my last employer’s MS repos…”
You nod here at something else related, which I experience, (but I have no idea if it is for the same reasons); I've switched code repos to private.
For me, on one hand it's a very simple way to get rid of the barrage of scrapers "indexing" a repo, (yes I know, there is other tech out there I can learn, install, configure and maintain) - but it's also.. I dunno, I think maybe FOSS was a very good thing at some point in the past, and may be a good thing again in the future. Right now though, working alone or in small groups is OK.
There's also this: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/This%20Is%20Not%20a%20Teahouse.md
(ironically the easiest link here is to github, although that document is part of the repo and thus is also available elsewhere, including on #reticulum itself.)
