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[-] artyom@piefed.social 21 points 6 days ago

Getting it off GitHub is usually enough to effectively kill it.

[-] michael@piefed.chrisco.me 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 6 days ago

Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn't care are becoming popular.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What makes you say that? Probably 95% of FOSS projects I see are still hosted on GH.

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 6 days ago

I should clarify, self hosted Gits for projects that may fall under targeted harassment by corporations (Eaglercraft, Switch Emulators, etc...) are becoming popular.

Ryujinx, operating out of Brazil, couldn't be taken to court by Nintendo. So a lot of projects that could have Nintendo's eye of sauron on them are looking for a safe country and self hosting as guaranteed insurance from a Yuzu situation.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Oh, github, a division of MicroSlop?

There are alternatives, which will become more popular as it becomes more and more obvious that they are just part of the US national 'security' apparatus.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

No, I meant GoodHank. The younger, better version of Hank Hill.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago

Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber in that regard

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe 95% of your FOSS projects aren't "free" enough ;o

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

They're not XD

[-] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Primary hosting, but they can always have a fallback for at-risk projects or even just use p2p. Of course that already increases the risk of a potentially hacked provider/repo or just fake/malware versions in the wild

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I personally got ahold of the final version of the source code to Ryujinx after it was pulled from GitHub and put it on archive.org and I'm literally a random nobody who had nothing to do with the project so you are very incorrect. It was almost immediately picked up by other developers and is still seeing development to this day

[-] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Oh well if you archived it then its not dead!

[-] mereo@piefed.ca 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They'll need to proactively clone it to a non-github repos before its shutdown.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Doesn't matter if they clone it or not.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

Why? Why is it harder to get it from codeberg or even self hosted forges?

It's not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github

[-] artyom@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not harder to get it from there, it's harder to get contributors.

It's not like most people find it by randomly browsing Github

They absolutely do, that's why devs are always begging for "stars".

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Until someone puts it back…

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