It’s such a simple reason tbh. Github is expected to stay online indefinitely. My VPS? As long as I pay the bill, which I may not want to at some point.
Codeberg is a decent middle ground - open source projects only. The site itself is open source too.
Convenience and reputation. People expect github to be a legitimate source of software (despite the fact that there’s little moderation). The UI is familiar already too.
Git is so easy to host yourself and everyone went and handed over all their code to evil corp to farm on anyway.
(Though I do understand that they were bought, but that was a while ago and it was only a matter of time before the evil seeped in.)
It’s such a simple reason tbh. Github is expected to stay online indefinitely. My VPS? As long as I pay the bill, which I may not want to at some point.
Codeberg is a decent middle ground - open source projects only. The site itself is open source too.
If it’s easy why are the open source developer class using Microsoft so much ?
It’s easy to do a lot of things people don’t do.
Like OP’s mom
Convenience and reputation. People expect github to be a legitimate source of software (despite the fact that there’s little moderation). The UI is familiar already too.