Expect more enshittification coming your way.
I don’t think tech people understand how bad it is that Microsoft owns GitHub.
GitLab is one of the few places people could go if GitHub enshittifies too much. Google’s stake in it (or full ownership of it) would probably be a good thing, because it would be seen as an important strategic hedge against Microsoft. If it’s bought by a smaller player, I can see GitHub squeezing it into irrelevance.
I view Gitea as the real alternative to GitHub. I was very big on GitLab for a long time, and think any competition is good, but I’d really like it if more people could seriously invest in Gitea.
They’re also working on ActivityPub support: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240
Forgejo?
It’s ironic that your alternative for GitHub is hosted on GitHub. That doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
They host on Github for more visibility.
Yeah, I don’t see how that’s an issue at all. If Github kicks them, they’ll just push to their own instance. They’d lose a few days to reconfigure the CI/CD or whatever, but that’s about it.
GitLab is a parade of avoidable CVEs. There are better alternatives to worry for.
This would explain why some people I know that work there are panicking.
Fuck
If that happens, I’ll create a preemptive PR on KilledByGoogle.
