Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

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Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to
Codeberg.

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I don't know about Codeberg, but there have been lots of
alternatives all along. Tons of projects switched from SourceForge
to GitHub. Many projects have their own websites too, so why not
self-host? GitHub do offer a lot of extra features for free, but
that's dealing with the devil IMHO. Especially as the more tied in
to GitHub-specific systems a project gets, the less practical it is
to move away if M$ get more greedy later on.

We have no idea what the future of Github will be, so it's time to stop
investing on it.  I think we really need to produce software (and entire
systems) that we can use on a peer-to-peer basis.  Instead of Github or
Codeberg, I think we need to create a web of Forgejo, Gitea et cetera.

Similarly, NNTP servers and IRC servers instead of Discord et cetera.  I
think the best things we've done have been decentralized.  I know that
this grass roots things never look as shiny as the commercial ones, but
I'm certain that they're much better in the relevant aspects.