Github has made it impossible to create an account when using a VPN and a privacy browser with fully spoofed hardware identifiers. (Use Firefox or Firefox-based Privacy Browser, VPN, install Canvasblocker to test this.) I create an account with Google or Apple (both requiring hardware identifiers and numbers and birthdates) or I can use an email. When I use an email, it comes back with this horrible test, and even if I do it completely correctly, it tells me after I didn’t do the test right, gaslighting me with a picture of what I chose (which I didn’t choose) and showing me the correct picture (which I did choose and it claims I didn’t select).
It’s fucking bullshit and it’s more corporate control of open source software. For people who have their discussion or issue tracker, I can’t even participate without hardware identifiers likely linked to me some other way and phone numbers. It’s fucking bullshit. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, FUCK YOU!!!
I am so tired of this bullshit. I just want to post an issue about a piece of software. You don’t need my fingerprint, hardware or personal, or biometric shit. This is a slippery slope. Fuck them.
I really hope more developers just get the fuck off Github. Honestly, if you are developing privacy-oriented software and using github, there’s a mistmatch and it’s bullshit, and I know it’s time consuming and annoying to move, but please do. This is fucking bullshit and it’s not like it’s going to become LESS annoying over time. FUCK THIS.
I use codeberg.org for my stuff.
It would be nice if codeberg supported the FUNDING.yml and had their own way to donate to the open source projects I like.
Microsoft made Sponsors so they can siphon a portion of the payment fees. There is no reason to make Codeberg add that sort of bloat when you can add a hyperlink to the README.* or in a section of your application to a third-party service that hopefully can be as focused on doing one thing as Codeberg largely has (non-profit hosted Forgejo).
If something is controlled by a giant corporation and keeping your data and privacy are offered for free, the price is your personel data.🔏
Why stop there? Git’s UX on the command line is awful, so adopt a better tool & your hosting will automatically be somewhere better.
Selfhosted git doesn’t require anything
Sure it does. Like mitigating constant DDoS attacks / AI scrapers. (To be clear, I’m not advocating using GitHub instead. I’m just saying freedom ain’t free.)
What a great ad for codeberg.
Also a great ad for GitLab.
Tons of alternatives out there
Also just, you know, git
There’s also a lot of worthy alternatives to Git too. There are many VCSs out there.
I’ve wanted to for a while, but this post gave me the final nudge I needed to just buckle down and try selfhosting my own. Forgejo was incredibly easy to set up and my buddies and I are already successfully collaborating on a project that I’ve moved over from Github. So thanks for making your rant post, you made a difference
codeberg
Sure but that’s about 8 years too late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Acquisition_by_Microsoft
*looks at the picture
Heh enshittification
Alternatively, a huge load of horseshit.
A shitpost, if you will
I’m still holding my breath waiting for IBM to do something atrocious to Fedora.
With the risk of AI spam and bot accounts, being able to identify a user on Github is important.
Codeberg for the win.
What about GitLab? When Microsoft bought GitHub, people got angry, and migrated their code to GitLab. When that happened, GitLab was all over the headlines for a while, but I haven’t read much about it ever since.
They seem to be going for IPO so codeberg it is.
Gitlab has a horrible UI when you have a smaller screen or lower end device, and I heard also not really great server-side performance compared to forgejo and gitea.
Also, the gitlab.com instance randomly blocks people or demands their credit card data.
If you want a cloud alternative to GitHub run by a non-profit and hosted outside of the U.S.
If you want to get your data out of the cloud entirely, or at least under a VPS you control, self host your own git repo (Using the same software as Codeberg)
Noted. Thanks 👍
Done, thanks for the links. 👍
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