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Kitchenowl creator has been flagged without warning making all of their repositories return 404, while in their settings all of the repositories still look normal with public visibility. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by iByteABit@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Here is the message where he found out what happened:

I didn't receive any information about it but when creating a support ticket I was told my account has been flagged and I had to do some extra verification. I've created a support ticket now and will keep you posted. I'll believe it's nothing major though, I use 2FA everywhere, the last commit on all repos is what I expect, and all sessions and usages look fine

Absolutely fuck Github and Microslop, they can just vanish your projects without notice whenever they want with barely any justification for it, and then take their sweet time to fix it too.

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[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks ago

What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:

Create an account with Codeberg, GitLab, or whatever you like.
Use their built-in tools to copy your repo over to your new account. In GitLab's case, this will even migrate over some of the additional features, like issues.
Update the places where you publish the project: PyPI, npm, whatever, with the new project home URL.
Archive the old project on GitHub, with a pointing link to the new project home.
(Optional) announce the above in any of the social spaces where people care about your project.

[-] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 13 points 3 weeks ago

The problem is that everyone already had a GitHub account and creating an account on 10 different forges just for reporting issues is annoying. GitHub was comfortable.

Forgejo is actively working on federation for this and I think it's super important. Create account somewhere, send issues, comments and PRs to projects on other instances.

[-] def@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

GitHub lets you use them as an oauth provider. Issue solved.

Instance fragmentation is annoying in the sense while you can unify log in with oauth you can’t share settings between instances of the same software. Would be cool if oauth could have a generic user_data field to store json of settings maybe…

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