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Re:On the web today, we don't use servers, we use services by sodimel on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:06PM (#28471221)
We have an initiative in France where local non-profit orgs setup and maintain such OSS services (for free or for a small fee). It's called "chatons"[0] (kittens), and it's great :)

[0]: https://www.chatons.org/

Re:On the web today, we don't use servers, we use services by geofft on Thursday September 09, 2021 @04:21PM (#28474196)
That's not self-hosting. That's getting services from a third-party organization that happens to be a non-profit. The only difference between that and GitHub is that GitHub is a for-profit company, which setup and maintain services for you (for free or a small fee).

So if the actual complaint is "stop supporting for-profit companies," sure (but then we have to ask why - there are reasons to expect that a for-profit company is likely to be more stable long-term, more likely to be secure, etc.). If the complaint is "GitHub / Microsoft in particular is bad, and chatons in particular is good," sure (but then, what about for-profit competitors like GitLab?).

But that's unrelated to the original complaint. As you say, chatons is maintaining OSS services for you to interact with.