Mass censorship, privacy violations and trackings are surging everywhere right now.
Given Microsoft’s acquisiton of GitHub in 2018, the temporary censorship of youtube-dl, GH’s Copilot, I don’t think GH is a good place to store my repositories anymore.
GitLab (gitlab.com instance) is not a good choice either because they block TOR users:
$ torsocks --isolate git clone https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8
Cloning into 'flake8'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/': The requested URL returned error: 403
Moreover, they have the annoying captcha and the anti DDOS things that never work which prevented me from logging in with some browsers so I removed my account there.
Have a look at these posts for other reasons:
Anyway I will keep the account for now in case I have to contribute to some project hosted on GH.
Current hostings #
For the moment my repositories are hosted here:
- https://software.franco.net.eu.org/frnmst
- personal instance
- see this
- https://codeberg.org/frnmst
- Codeberg is a community-driven, non-profit software development platform operated by Codeberg e.V. and centered around Codeberg.org, a Gitea-based software forge.
- https://framagit.org/frnmst
- Framasoft is a not-for-profit which can only keep running thanks to your donations.
- they provide authentication with GitHub, GitLab.com and BitBucket