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Lots of layoffs ("re-evaluating our operational footprint") and switching to "agentic" processes. Target user is AI.

Anyone still hosting Gitlab?

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (34 children)

Isnt codeberg centralized? I worry it will run into the same issue as github. I was checking out Radicle but its cryptic and hard to search for other projects.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Even if, switching your used repo hosting service is a matter of minutes if you're using git. You register on the other site, add your SSH key, update the remote URL of your repository which is just a git remote set-url origin <new url> and then hit git push, probably with something like --force or another option, kinda forgot the exact name. So that's something you could easily automate in like 10 lines of bash script for all your repositories.

It's super hard to "trap" people in something like github because git is so open and decentralized. Switching is super easy. Most people who stay on github or gitlab do it because they need the CI/CD pipelines or because they're lazy and/or stupid.

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