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Lemmy's source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services. (lemmy.ml)
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Forgefriends highlights how propriety services, like GitHub, can lock in a projects and destroy its momentum.

Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.

Examples

If Microsoft were to release a competing link aggregator; then they could persuade GitHub (Microsoft's subsidiary) into locking or removing the main repository for Lemmy's source code.

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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that happens

git remote set-url origin newurl

Not saying self hosting the remote is not a good idea, just that the risk you mention is not so dramatic

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, Microsoft can't relicense the code, it can merely make it inconvenient to access on their platform. It's really a non-issue.

[–] original_ish_name@latte.isnot.coffee 4 points 1 year ago

Codeberg! Codeberg! Codeberg!