Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.
Examples
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.
If that happens
git remote set-url origin newurl
Not saying self hosting the remote is not a good idea, just that the risk you mention is not so dramatic
Yup, Microsoft can’t relicense the code, it can merely make it inconvenient to access on their platform. It’s really a non-issue.
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or a self-hosted gitea instance maybe ?
We already have both of those, self hosted gitea and codeberg.
That’s an extra cost though
It also has many nice features like pages etc.
I agree! There is also forge friends.
I believe the devs host their code on multiple repositories including Codeberg.
Yep, we have 3 code mirrors.
I’d happily push for moving our issue tracking off github once a federated alternative becomes stable.
Oh. That is good then. A lot of free and open source projects are still hosted on proprietary services, like NewPipe.
Codeberg! Codeberg! Codeberg!
codeberg.org is a gut replacement for github. github got taken over by microsoft.