edit: I mistook Fosshost for a forge, but they were more like a cloud provider. SourceForge used to hope everyone would think that way. Fortunately their abusi

edit: I mistook Fosshost for a forge, but they were more like a cloud provider. SourceForge used to hope everyone would think that way. Fortunately their abusive [0] dominance didn't last. As well as a general anti-monoculture argument, [1] there's a case to be made that Free and Open Source projects should live on 'forges' which are themselves Free and Open Source. [2][3] Also, in the specific case of GitHub, a lot of people are unhappy about the Copilot project. Also on this general topic I recommend this hour-long discussion video [4]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies [1] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/github_monoculture.html https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/github_monoculture.htm... [2] https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infrastructure.html https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras... [3] https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/ https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/ [4] https://spacepub.space/w/dPKZMydUMLqEVkK7Kuy4ir https://spacepub.space/w/dPKZMydUMLqEVkK7Kuy4ir