Lemmy’s source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services.
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Lemmy’s source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services.
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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.

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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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or a self-hosted gitea instance maybe ?

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We already have both of those, self hosted gitea and codeberg.

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