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[โ€“] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rather ironically the source is hosted in a service run by a US based big tech i.e. Microsoft.

[โ€“] mitram2@lemmy.pt 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Meh, git is distributed by virtue of its design. They could put in a little effort and host their own gitea or gitlab, but it's not the end of the world.

[โ€“] jaschop@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Gitea sold out its community a while ago. Forgejo is where the cool kids hang nowadays.

[โ€“] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Git is distributed by design though this kind of central repository model people use is not the original intended use case rather the way Linux is developed.

They could self host some source management system, yes, but they could have used something like codeberg to start with instead of github.

[โ€“] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Radicle user spotted