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Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday December 03, 2022 @08:58PM (#33849759)
> There's really no reason not to host on industry-standard free hosting, ie Github or Gitlab.

Eh, I can understand not wanting to be at Microsoft's mercy. And ideology oriented projects are likely to take issue with hosting on a platform that is not itself open source.

Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by bombcar on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:12PM (#33849852)
Microsoft at least is the devil you know. It’s like the problems with staying on Musk’s Twitter are known - but some random mastadon server could have a literal who in charge; who could do anything (or disappear as Thomas the CEO seems to have done - check Sodor mayhap).
Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by hcrean on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:32AM (#33853095)
You would choose a company that thinks Open Source is "literally cancer"[1] to support your FOSS project, rather than an unknown person: You need more faith in humanity.

Is Github more stable as a platform, sure. Does Github ban a higher percentage of projects than are effected by unreliable 3rd parties, unquestionably!

My own personal experience is that about 5% of the FOSS projects I have hosted on Github have received a DCMA takedown notice, normally from people trying to monetize in the same domain. (Including a website for a local sports club and an Android app for learning fingering of an obscure musical instrument). Less than 0.3% of all FOSS projects I have hosted elsewhere have received a S&D or DCMA or any equivalent...

[1]https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_ca...