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Lemmy's source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services. (lemmy.ml)
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Forgefriends highlights how propriety services, like GitHub, can lock in a projects and destroy its momentum.

Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.

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If Microsoft were to release a competing link aggregator; then they could persuade GitHub (Microsoft's subsidiary) into locking or removing the main repository for Lemmy's source code.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Codeberg.org would be a good option, especially as it runs on Gitea which is working on enabling ActivityPub federation right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

or a self-hosted gitea instance maybe ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

We already have both of those, self hosted gitea and codeberg.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That's an extra cost though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It also has many nice features like pages etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I agree! There is also forge friends.