Why GitHub?

james@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 92 points –

I can't help but notice most (all I've seen anyway) of the federated projects are hosted on GitHub. GitLab is also not federated, but can be self hosted and has at least discussed it.

I am fully aware of my bias for GitLab over GitHub, but I still wonder why is those things? Is there a federated source hosting project?

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Legacy I would say. Github used to be the first and the best.

Now they are literally selling out work of open source developers with copilot, but their service is honestly good

Legacy I would say. Github used to be the first and the best.

I know this is the answer, but I'm sad when the answer is "because we've always done it that way".

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