• ch1cken
    3•2 years ago

    I feel your arguments apply to the fediverse as well?

    On the fediverse i only have to adapt to one ui, and create one account in order to interact with other instances. The same doesn’t apply to gitlab instances/sr.ht/codeberg/sourceforge etc.

    huge number of projects using gitlab

    still nowhere near as many as on github, and how many of those are on the official gitlab instance rather than on everyone’s selfhosted one?

    I can also run my own gitlab

    i don’t get what benefit hosting your own git brings to be honest

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•2 years ago

      i don’t get what benefit hosting your own git brings to be honest

      Same reason to host anything, I’m not beholden to some company’s whims.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      I don’t get what benefit hosting your own git brings to be honest

      Just another level of backup. Personally I tend to have:

      1. A copy of my repo on my dev machine
      2. A copy on a self hosted git server. Currently I’m using gitbucket though.
      3. A copy on GitHub.

      This way I should always have 2 copies of my code that’s accessable at all times. So that there’s very slim chance that I’ll lose my code, even temporarily.