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by nicr_22 56 days ago
Focus on open protocols, simple formats over complex vendor-specific cruft. Then you can always "fork" away from an enshittified saas.

I bet a small team of the quality of the kind developers who are attracted to hacking on Ghostty could recreate the subset of GitHub functionality they actually need in ~six months. It's just the problem of how to pay for the ongoing care, maintenance and hosting? Maybe another opportunity for Mitchell's particular brand of philanthropic OSS.
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twelvedogs 56 days ago
https://forgejo.org/ already exists, I suspect the issue would be hosting it at scale
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bombcar 56 days ago
DNS is the cause of all problems, but it's also the solution - just like anyone can run Apache or Nginx, so should anyone be able to run a git setup. Then it scales really well, as everyone is doing their own thing on their own domains.

Of course, you lose out on some things like ease of user access and various protections.

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tardedmeme 55 days ago
Anyone can run a git setup. You need git and SSH installed on a server and you need an SSH key for each user.
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gnabgib 55 days ago
You don't need this. git and a local drive. git and a shared drive. git and an https engine (can be a plugin to apache/nginx, not a full github like solution). git and ssh but people use username/password.

Full github/gitlab: git and Gogs, Gitea, Forgejo.

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