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How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem (ploum.net)
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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Relatively minor for source code forges.

The reasons everyone uses GitHub:

  • Free, even for private repos. No ads.
  • Free CI - this is huge. Nobody else does this because it costs Microsoft around $100m/year to provide.
  • It's quite good.

If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Codeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Which is one of the reasons behind github's network effect.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's not a network effect.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

I said its one of the reasons behind the network effect, not the network effect itself. github can offer more freebies, which attracts more users, which makes it more attractive to other users and for existing users to stick around.