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@bruce965@lemmy.ml Reddit is more popular than Fedi so why even bother posting it here. The popularity argument in favour of Github is so dumb, especially when you realize that you're part of why it stays popular.
If Github doesn't bother you, you clearly didn't think through why you supposedly care for free software.
You might have a point... I didn't post on Reddit because it doesn't feel like a place where I belong, Lemmy does.
Unfortunately GitHub still feels like a place where I belong, as that's where most of the FOSS devs publish, despite its proprietary nature.
I do realize the irony. Perhaps when Forgejo federation will be fully implemented and enabled on Codeberg I will stop hosting on GitHub and hopefully other devs will too. But for now I think that's what makes the most sense.
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Then you belong in a place without freedom.
Most well known, perhaps, but most in the literal sense, certainly not. Not like you would know, because they don't publish on proprietary places, so they're not easy to find if you do not wish to put effort into looking.
So you're waiting for a defederated version of the centralized approach to git. Git is, by its very nature, designed to work decentralized from the ground up. Then sub-par developers found it too difficult, so they add a layer of complexity on top to make it centralized. But then sub-par developers realize its actually really inconvenient to be tied to a single provider, so they add a layer of complexity on top to make it slightly less shit.
Just use git properly, its not that hard. An untold number of developers were able to do it before you, and plenty of better developers are still doing it right now. You're hurting only yourself by limiting yourself to a worse way of using git, and you're hurting the software development world even more by using Github. It is an insult to free software development, one you gladly keep propagating for some inane reason.
Try thinking harder.