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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago

Organic Maps successfully migrates to Forgejo after GitHub blocks them

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Organic Maps successfully migrates to Forgejo after GitHub blocks them

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago
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GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo@floss.social). Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us: - 54k commits - 9.5k issues - 4.3k pull requests - 100k comments Everything moved. Nothing left behind. https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps
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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    What happened? Why did github block them?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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        🎉 sometimes US sanctions actually do lead to positive outcomes :)

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          the world adapts :)

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        Thank you. Would you mind explaining what this means please? What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

        contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place

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          US likes to impose arbitrary sanctions on its adversaries. Basically the US government decided that people from a particular country aren’t allowed to collaborate with people using US based platforms like GitHub.

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          What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions

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          The US has been punishing open source contributors from countries they don’t like.

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        https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/github-and-trade-controls

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        deleted by creator

  • Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml
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    Was just about to post this before @yogthos@lemmy.ml beat me to the punch. 🙂👍

    Why are so many projects still on Microsoft-owned github? They should follow OM’s lead.

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      Github is basically social media but for tech nerds. Social media networks naturally monopolize, as they primarily have value because everyone else is already there. If you put your project on Github and it is popular you might get 2k “stars” and regular pull requests. If you put your project on an alternative you might get 10X less of both. So people make decisions about the trade-offs between exposure and avoiding Microsoft

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        I think we all know this, but it’s the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.

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    Anything that follows the fascist US regime’s laws should be boycotted. Congrats to OrganicMaps for ditching Github.

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    Nice, looks like they are self hosting then?

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    Today you need to be independent. I hope other projects will follow suit.

    P.S. GitHub has announced a limit of 100,000 repositories per user or organization account. The limit will take effect on April 28.

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    Huh? What happens to my issue then?

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    Downloading the app just because of this

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    Good stuff.

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