Post #457497
2026-02-28 18:11 UTC
Replies (40)
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@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 08:01
With the risk of AI spam and bot accounts, being able to identify a user on Github is important.
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@utopiah@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 10:13
Sure but that’s about 8 years too late en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Acquisition_by_Micro…
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@herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 10:33
I use codeberg.org for my stuff.
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@Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2026-03-01 10:35
Selfhosted git doesn’t require anything
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@Zerush__dup_9179@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 21:44
Tons of alternatives out there alternativeto.net/software/github/
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@whelk@retrolemmy.com 2026-03-01 22:58
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
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@gokayburucdev@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 23:19
If something is controlled by a giant corporation and keeping your data and privacy are offered for free, the price is your personel data.🔏
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@0x0@lemmy.zip 2026-03-01 23:22
CodeBerg is the way, or host your own forgejo.
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@Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2026-03-02 00:20
*looks at the picture Heh enshittification
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@Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 2026-03-02 01:29
What a great ad for codeberg.
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@Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2026-03-02 02:32
I’m still holding my breath waiting for IBM to do something atrocious to Fedora.
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@lithiumground@lemmy.world 2026-03-02 07:27
codeberg
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@toastal@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 20:02
Why stop there? Git’s UX on the command line is awful, so adopt a better tool & your hosting will automatically be somewhere better.
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@flandish@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 18:25
Codeberg for the win.
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@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 21:19
If you want a cloud alternative to GitHub run by a non-profit and hosted outside of the U.S. - https://codeberg.org/ 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) - https://forgejo.org/
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@PrinzKasper@feddit.org 2026-03-01 01:32
Playing devil's advocate, it's probably more about blocking bots from creating accounts than it is about blocking privacy minded users. You just end up being collateral damage. Obviously that still sucks, I'm just saying it's not that simple
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@davel@lemmy.ml 2026-02-28 18:28
Tell me how you really feel 😅 They also own Visual Studio Code, control VSCode, and effectively control the VSCodium soft fork.
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@JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 18:33
It's the same story for basically anything MS touches.
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@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2026-02-28 22:26
a coworker invited me to his company GitHub team or something recently, and I tried to join several times. each time, I got stuck with a 10 question test to "verify I was human". it was not quick. eventually, I had time to actually complete it without timing out. after completing it correctly twice without success, I gave up
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@autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 20:29
Bro literallly posted a photo of a pile of shit, lmaoo
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@JTskulk@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 21:20
I can't figure out if Free software projects don't know or don't care that GitHub is run by Microslop.
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@obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 2026-02-28 19:18
Agree completely, these shenanigans are a big reason I'm on a selfhosting rampage at the minute. Speaking of, does anyone have favourite self-hosted alternatives?
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-02-28 20:13
Been that way for a long time. They rejected me years ago. Much like Google, MS is in the ad business, and they want your personal details to sell to advertisers. Letting you sign up with fake account is contrary to their interests. It infuriates me to no end that so many FOSS devs are still using Github. No one fucking cares about privacy or sovereignty until it personally fucks them.
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@Anon518@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-01 01:38
I downvoted for the image. If you're going to make a text post, make a text post.
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@ReallyCoolDude@lemmy.ml 2026-02-28 21:17
Use codeberg. I stopped using github for my projects a while ago.
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@ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-28 19:46
Tangential to the main point you're going for: when you say fingerprint or biometrics I think you're referring to passkeys. Passkeys don't share any of your fingerprint or other biometric identifiers with anyone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/passkeys-and-privacy One of the major design criteria of their creation was to be an increase in security without sacrificing privacy. It's made them more finicky to get working but there's a very good reason they're very popular with security professionals.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-02-28 20:16
Btw, CanvasBlocker actually doesn't do much more than default Firefox nowadays but breaks more things.
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@Pissed@lemmy.ml 2026-02-28 23:45
Fuck computers they're war machines.
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@ramble81@lemmy.zip 2026-02-28 22:34
I’m curious when this happened. I literally created a new account for GitHub this week, only using an email address, and on Firefox. No wonky tests or anything needed.
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@Formfiller@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 01:00
My college has a Microsoft email account they just gave me but It says I need to download an unrelated app to log in. I don’t really want to do that
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@Artafernes@lemmus.org 2026-02-28 19:46
No need for that massive pile of shit
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-03-01 04:12
Is there some way to mirror a repo on both, with out having to setup some api keys? I've been getting more and more authwalls on gitbub. That goes against everything I'm doing with foss
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-03-01 04:09
Link to article?
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@hueso@kosmos.social 2026-03-03 03:15
It has been like this for years
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 03:40
I stopped using github when they held my account hostage. Told me I had 2 months to set up 2fa. Realized I don't even need github for anything and if I want to share my source code, I'll just put it up on my site.
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-03-01 04:13
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-03-01 04:12
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@orc_princess@lemmy.ml 2026-03-01 02:26
Can you put the picture as NSFW? Makes me a bit nauseated and I wanna keep visiting the post for new comments lol
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@Amaterasu@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 22:06
I wonder how this potential diaspora of repos from Github may affect some package distributions that are merely pointing the application to be compiled like is the case in some AUR application. Will it generate quite a lot of overhead for AUR maintainers?
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-01 02:09
You don’t need GitHub. It’s nice but hit was literally built not to need that kind of thing. I’m quickly entering my “fuck it, everything goes on Yggdrasil” phase now.