Time for a European GitHub?
Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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No russian suggestions.
Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
- No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
- No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
- Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
- Do not spam or abuse network features.
- Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
- No generative AI content.
Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
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๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
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๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
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๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
Buy Local:
Continents:
European:
Buying and Selling:
Boycott:
Countries:
Companies:
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
I enjoy the social aspect of GitHub. Follow the projects my friends are working on. Time for a federated Forgejo?
Edit: it's a thing https://forgefed.org/
Already exists: Codeberg
Codeberg is only an alternative for FOSS software.
Most of my GitHub stuff for example is private client projects that I cannot simply publish. They donโt provide much value to others and might contain proprietary code. The same goes for private half finished side projects that Iโm sure most people have on their accounts. Codeberg is simply not the right place for this.
The right place for that is a private forgejo instance. Why put private data on somebody else's computer?
You're right, but neither is Github. You don't want your proprietary code on some corporate platform. A self-hosted git server is the way to go for that.
The strength of platforms like Codeberg and Github lies in having a large userbase who can access your project to post issues, contribute code etc. No point in using them for things like private repos.
Why not? I thought they support private repos as well as public ones
If it's private code why not have a private git repository?
Self-hosting a Git Forge is very feasible. Closest hosted alternative platform is GitLab but I don't think it's still EU since it was listed on NASDAQ. Being a remote company, they don't list a headquarters. I don't know where their servers are based.
Yeah itโs not hosted in the EU. From their privacy policy:
Sharing Personal Data Across National Borders. Our Services are hosted in the United States and information we collect will be stored and processed on our servers in the United States.
There are some smaller providers that also offer Git via Forgejo or Gitea like Disroot. That might be fit for private use, but I havenโt personally tried it. Codeberg is great for more public facing FOSS projects but given their size Iโd throw them a donation if youโre going to depend on it beyond personal scale.
That said, I just selfhost Forgejo using Coolify on a VPS in my home country. My goal is to migrate at some point to self hosting in my home, eventually.
Forgejo was really easy to set up with docker
It's easy without docker too. It's a single static binary.
I didn't try ๐คท prefer not to run bare metal but good to know!
I think GitLab is american, anyway, Forgejo it's the best IMO and is also european
Then you host a Forgejo instance if you want to to have private repos
Obviously, weโre way more people and weโre better educated across the board.
It's not obvious at all. We only now over took them.
China is a joke here. But it's not representative.
I'm curious, what do developers in China use? I assume they have their own platforms of sorts? I've seen some Chinese githubs but yeah not a lot
I guess it's quite probable their tradition and culture don't value opens source so much