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Getting it off GitHub is usually enough to effectively kill it.
I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I'm literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day
Oh well if you archived it then its not dead!
Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.
Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn't care are becoming popular.
What makes you say that? Probably 95% of FOSS projects I see are still hosted on GH.
I should clarify, self hosted Gits for projects that may fall under targeted harassment by corporations (Eaglercraft, Switch Emulators, etc...) are becoming popular.
Ryujinx, operating out of Brazil, couldn't be taken to court by Nintendo. So a lot of projects that could have Nintendo's eye of sauron on them are looking for a safe country and self hosting as guaranteed insurance from a Yuzu situation.
Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber in that regard
Primary hosting, but they can always have a fallback for at-risk projects or even just use p2p. Of course that already increases the risk of a potentially hacked provider/repo or just fake/malware versions in the wild
They'll need to proactively clone it to a non-github repos before its shutdown.
Doesn't matter if they clone it or not.
Why? Why is it harder to get it from codeberg or even self hosted forges?
It's not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github
It's not harder to get it from there, it's harder to get contributors.
They absolutely do, that's why devs are always begging for "stars".
Until someone puts it back…