• Xanza@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    Until there will be.

    I think people are grossly underestimating the sheer size and significance of the issue at hand. Forgejo will very likely eventually get to the same point Github is at right now, and will have to employ some of the same safeguards.

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      18 hours ago

      Except Forgejo is open source and you can run your own instance of it. I do, and it’s great.

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        16 hours ago

        That’s a very accurate statement which has absolutely nothing to do with what I’ve said. Fact of the matter stands, is that those who generally seek to use a Github alternative do so because they dislike Microsoft or closed source platforms. Which is great, but those platforms with hosted instances see an overwhelmingly significant portion of users who visit because they choose not to selfhost. It’s a lifecycle.

        1. Create cool software for free
        2. Cool software gets popular
        3. Release new features and improve free software
        4. Lots of users use your cool software
        5. Running software becomes expensive, monetize
        6. Software becomes even more popular, single stream monetization no longer possible
        7. Monetize more
        8. Get more popular
        9. Monetize more

        By step 30 you’re selling everyone’s data and pushing resource restrictions because it’s expensive to run a popular service that’s generally free. That doesn’t change simply because people can selfhost if they want.

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          10 hours ago

          To me, this reads strongly like someone who is confidently incorrect. Your starting premise is incorrect. You are claiming Forgejo will do this. Forgejo is nothing but an open source project designed to self host. If you were making this claim about Codeberg, the project’s hosted version, then your starting premise would be correct. Obviously, they monetize Codeberg because they’re providing a service. That monetization feeds Forgejo development. They could also sell official support for people hosting their own instances of Forgejo. This is a very common thing that open source companies do…

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            2 hours ago

            It just sounds like they didn’t understand the relationship between Forgejo and Codeberg. I didn’t either into I looked it up just now. IMHO their comment is best interpreted as being about Codeberg. People running their own instances of Forgejo are tangential to the topic at hand.

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              1 hour ago

              Either way, their comment is out of place. A Codeberg comment when the original comment was pointing people to Forgejo.