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It's time to mirror you project on Codeberg (codeberg.org)
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Hey you, yes you 🫵🏻! You created that awesome project on #GitHub or #GitLab. What if Trump cut off connections between the US and #Europe . What would you do without European developers? It's time to think about a fallback solution!

This link is a #GitHub or #Gitlab to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de mirroring tutorial

#FreeYourCodeFromUS

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[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would love to do it this way but so far for any of my projects, github is the only platform that I received contributions (issues, code contributions, etc).

Unfortunately I feel this missing critical mass is a real sticking point for many small projects (think 10-100s of github ‘stars’). I hosted the projects simultaneously on other platforms and other projects exclusively on other platforms and never got engagement from the community except for a single heroic individual sending a patch per email.

I get that breaking this critical mass is part of the point and I am the dude complaining that my friends are all on whatsapp but it seems even more deeply entrenched here to me, starting with service-dependent issue collaboration. Only ways out I see currently are decentralised issue discussion à la sr.ht mailing lists, direct tracking in the repo like git-bug or federation/2-way mirroring of the centralised ones.

Until then, I don’t foresee this monopoly budging.