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As soon as GitHub starts rolling ads into my git workflow, I'll turn this computer off forever.

@fribbledom wouldn't turning GitHub off be easier? :blobfoxthinksmart:

@pfm

Until there's a federated replacement? Nope.

@fribbledom @pfm There's been attempts like sourcehut.org/ where it uses email for managing issues, mailing lists for discussions and pull requests and the like. email is kind of federation I suppose. Saying "I don't want to leave this unfederated problematic platform for another less-problematic unfederated platform" seem like a weird take to me, though I'm probably missing something.

sourcehut.orgsourcehut - the hacker's forgesourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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@Baggypants @pfm

I guess email is federated, yes, but it's really not the UX I'm looking for when working on issues & PRs.

While I do run my own gitea instance for some things, switching to another unfederated platform seems futile to me. The only thing that would achieve is forcing users & contributors of my software to sign up for yet another account to participate.

@Baggypants @keithzg @pfm @fribbledom fossil-scm.org

Although I consider it to not really be applicable here (drive-by contributions go against its grain; also, doesn't solve the "yet another account" problem)

fossil-scm.orgFossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System