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@ Katja Lutz
2025-05-05 07:50:43
Seeing how so very few oss projects move away from Github to Gitea, Forgejo and the likes, I wonder what would make them move to ~Gitstr~?
The thing that keeps projects on Github is the same thing that keeps normies on Twitter and Facebook, the network effect and discoverability.
Not hosting the code on Github comes with a huge disadvantage that almost nobody wants to pay.
I mean I see it myself with my projects on Codeberg: almost nobody cares, no issues, no prs, no interactions. People could log in with their Github account, but they don't even try to.
Another psychological thing is that contributors wanna show off their work on their Github profiles "Contribution activity" feed. It's a popularity contest after all and the contributions count is a social score, important for finding future jobs.
TLDR. Most people will not move away from Github, when ~Gitstr~ becomes a real thing, instead they will move away when Microsoft immensely fucks it up, when popular oss devs move away and when the hacks wanna follow the group to the next grass fields. But surely they will not move to ~Gitstr~, they will move to ~Bluesky Code Hub~ 🙄
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