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    Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 19:09:50 JSTFabio ManganielloFabio Manganiello
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    @jalcine I've recently written a post on my source forge migration adventures https://social.platypush.tech/@blacklight/111655737001373938, from Github, to Gitlab, to Gitea, to Forgejo.

    Hosting your projects on a truly free platform that is relatively shielded from risks of enshittification has become a challenge.

    I understand those who feel like giving up, but personally I will never give up.

    Exhaustion/apathy by continuous enshittification and hostile practices are exactly the final goal of platforms like Github. I won't let them win this war, even if it costs me one source forge migration per week or writing my own. And I hope that more developers join me in this war (because it's a real war against surveillance capitalism that we are fighting) rather than giving up.

    Once Forgejo has full federation support, its greatest pitfall (fragmentation, and the need of one account per platform) will also be mitigated.

    In conversationabout 11 months ago from social.platypush.techpermalink

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      In the beginning there was (mostly) Github. Then it got acquired by Microsoft, it started taking down repos and accounts at every whim, it started violating FOSS licenses by training their closed models on our open code, and I started self-hosting my Gitlab instance instead. Then Gitlab enshittified, its open offering started falling apart and serious bugs were left open for months, it started to aggressively push users to their cloud offering, it even embraced openly hostile practices (such as deleting repos and accounts that hadn't been active for a few months), and I migrated to Gitea. Now Gitea is also enshittifying, providing features in Gitea Cloud that aren't available on the open core (one example, a stupid limitation on the maximum number of users allowed on a server, when it's my own fucking business to decide how many users I want to store on my own database on my own machine), and probably it won't take long before they start pushing their users to migrate to the cloud version by breaking even more basic features on their open version. So I'm in the process of migrating to Forgejo. Luckily I have enough technical skills to migrate things around and even patching code. But just because I can it doesn't mean that I should. Especially when the trend is that of a code forge migration per year just because all of them have decided to enshittify and are trying to upsell me stuff that I either never asked in the first place, or that was given for granted and it suddenly became a premium. I just want to have a service to upload and share my own open projects, I'm fine to run it on my own machines with no customer support involved, and I'm fine to even contribute to their codebase. I'm not asking much. I shouldn't go through so much trouble. I haven't been always so hateful towards the techbiz, but the techbiz has made me so embittered because business people keep breaking *our* tech on a daily basis in the name of "monetization" and "everything must be on our cloud", and I'm forced to invest all of my time and energies in seeking alternatives. I seriously just want all these business parasites that have taken over my industry gone and dead by now. I fucking hate every single one of you.
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