I just wanted to install Organic Map on a Smartphone of someone I know and realised, that it is now marked as “Public archive” on GitHub. Does anyone know whats going on there? Couldn’t find any relevant information on there, like transitioning to another Git hosting provider or discontinuing the App.
Doesn’t look archived to me
Oh I see now, I guess that notice isn’t visible on mobile. Apparently Github did it not Organic Maps and it’s being sorted out according to a user in their matrix chat.
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Something seems off indeed
A github org who used the same estonian company name has also made a fork.
Seems like nothing to be alarmed about.
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Thanks! Didn’t know where to look. Mastodon it was.
Well it does actually raise different alarms again on dependance on the insane US government in tech that Europeans suffer from.
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Oh yeah 100%. I take it there aren’t any good enough alternatives since Privacy Guides is also still using GitHub?
We have different places we host the git actually
But yeah I will agree that nothing offers the case of what Github does at this point.
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The “Forgejo” mirror seems down. Not sure if that is just temporarily.
If free compute was available, I will bet projects will shift. The issue with all Github alternatives is compute and availability. Europe needs more data centres, and more consensus on not selling out their countries for saving pennies on AWS. The best thing out of a Trump administration would be an independent europe, especially since it will shut up US idiots who still think their tech supremacy is brains and not just free services. The more tech infra becomes a commodity, the less leverage US will have.
EU has the same, if not even worse sanctions against Russia and its citizens living outside of it.
My comment was more that Europe shouldnt be reliant on the US government daily opinion on matters.
EU sanctions are mostly trying to hurt those in power from what I see but yeah you cannot always avoid hitting ordinary citizens that have nothing to do with the conflict unfortunately.
This topic certainly isn’t the one you should use as an excuse to dunk on US.
I was told the opposite by my Russian friends in immigration. EU bureaucrats speak about their intentions to punish Russians as a whole, and it’s evident by their actions. PS5 is used by the Russian army, apparently!
It’s hypocritical to blame US for sanctioning innocents while praising EU when it was the Biden administration that sanctioned Russians in the first place.
I am about to set up my own hosted git server that mirrors to both Codeberg and GitHub.
I think the concern for folks is leaning too heavily into a single company yet we all want to get off of US company as well, so we go with the most ubiquitous choice that also improves opportunity for discovery. GitHub has the advantage of showing up more frequently in a Google search which is still the common way to be discovered… for worse or for worser
I wonder if Peergos or other altnets have this option. I really think the best solution would be crowdsource the storage on ipfs and compute on another layer of altnet app that also provides scaffolding to mirror to clearnet sites like GitHub.
All governments are just empty turrets waiting to mow their populations and colonized populations down… What’s new.
Well yeah and the main advantage is that everyone can collaborate. I guess we need something more federated.
Indeed. We could easily switch to Forgejo when federation exists TBH. In the meantime, I just don’t see the point of switching to another centralized silo, even “one of the good ones” like Codeberg.
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Yeah, same. I think peergos could use this as their initial selling case. @ianopolous
I know I’m conflating things a bit but I think peergos needs a couple examples of really apps before people get how a privacy first altnet hosting federated options could work. This would be a really good problem to marry that with.