What a total joke, but there was also hints they would do it given their non-answer back on March 2nd.
This is also a reverse of what they did in 2014, where they censored content from Russian users by the Russian government request. Totally unpredictable beyond making the wrong move each time.
Also keep in mind Github is owned by Microsoft, who have always been scum to open source.
codeberg.org is a nice non-US alternative. I migrated a while back and I am very happy.
Warning: they are Germany-based, and not friendly to anything piracy-related. They removed a few repos of mine, and I had to move elsewhere.
Repos of something other than FOSS, or repos of potentially-infringement-enabling FOSS like youtube-dl? From what I know of codeberg I’d expect them to allow the latter; I hope they aren’t any more unfriendly to piracy-related FOSS than their local laws require them to be.
I think its a local law issue, but also Germany’s laws against piracy / infringement are almost as draconian as the US’s.
Really? Just when a thought that compared to Github and Gitlab it was the best alternative for not being a corporation and being less tied (in legal/political terms) to any kind of US constraints. What where the supposed reasons for the banning?
The best way to get this message to the masses is to make a meme out of it, post it to /r/ProgrammerHumor, then brigade it here and on !brigadeforfoss@lemmy.ml
EDIT: IT’S ALIVE https://lemmy.ml/post/238252 https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/u82khi/github_did_something/
Trying a few ideas
“Self Reflection Time”
I don’t like this one too much since it criticizes the audience
“Github Issues Today Explained”
I don’t like this one too much because I don’t actually know SQL or what the proper expression would be
Thoughts/others?
“Thanks GitHub, very cool”
Feel free to post it there if you want.
That’s super good, will post a toned down variation of it
Not being all too fluent in SQL, I was wondering why that statement looked so weird… :D
I believe, it would rather be e.g.:
DELETE FROM users WHERE country = "Russia";Maybe a bit too obvious to be particularly funny, but at the same time I don’t have a ton of faith in the SQL abilities of /r/ProgrammerHumor…
I never trusted Github anyways.
Made worse by the fact that GitHub minimized the actual Git metadata as much as possible. For example the linked commit has just a one-line description and a number. If GitHub encouraged good commit descriptions and history it would be much less of an issue.
Of course they want the lock-in.
They did it for the UI/UX, which I actually agree with. The other mainstream git solutions are deplorable
Gitea is self-hostable and federates with other Gitea instances. It also can be used to create tokens for SSO.
Tagging @dessalines@lemmy.ml , though he probably already knows about it, but just in case stuff gets weird with lemmy.
How about surcehat? It can also be self hosted:
I’m a big fan, the founded made an excellent post discussing how GitHub keeps introducing vendor lock in “features” like pull requests that don’t use standard git features and prevent collaboration with projects hosted on other platforms.
Nice shit…
