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I think it also needs to be said that GitHub has helped countless open source projects grow- Git Hosting, wiki hosting, issues, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, a nice API...

There are LOTS of reasons to host your open source project on GitHub



Sourceforge used to have similar reasons.


And if github truly goes to shit like source forge did people will just move to a clone.

But if you look at any source forge repo right now, I think you'll see github as a long way to fall before it gets that bad.


The tragedy here is that folks don't learn.


Learn what, exactly? Anything can go sour, including community-run open source stuff. There is never any guarantee for the future about anything.


Yet many expect that everything always stay the same, and flock like sheeps to the next one that sells themselves as otherwise.


The are more reasons to run away from GH and just set a locally managed SourceHut instance for sanity and interop.




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