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Re:Why GitHub Won by digging on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:24PM (#41490958)
> A number of good alternatives exist, there's no monoculture

That doesn't sound true to me at all, except maybe in some very small niches. I've used Bitbucket at exactly one job; I've found Codeberg, but no project I've used was actually hosted there; and literally everything else I see or use is on Github.

Re:Why GitHub Won by nine_k on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:50PM (#41491297)
GitLab is relatively more widely represented, but of the projects I encounter, about 2-3% are on GitLab. I encountered projects on Codeberg, too, and even on sr.ht.

A bunch of larger projects have a mirror on GitHub for easier access.

BTW there's launchpad.net which is often overlooked, bit it's vital for Ubuntu-specific projects.

At paid day jobs, I had to use BitBucket at least twice, and I miss better code review tools, like Phabricator.

GitHub definitely dominates the market, partly due to the network effects, but I don't think they have a lot of moat. If something goes badly enough wrong there, there will be plenty of viable alternatives with an easy to trivial migration path.

Re:Why GitHub Won by rapnie on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:34AM (#41498167)
> GitHub definitely dominates the market, partly due to the network effects, but I don't think they have a lot of moat. If something goes badly enough wrong there, there will be plenty of viable alternatives with an easy to trivial migration path.

Their moat is a billion development tool vendors that have "integrate with Github" as a must-have and expected functionality.

Re:Why GitHub Won by account42 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:46AM (#41500712)
> BTW there's launchpad.net which is often overlooked, bit it's vital for Ubuntu-specific projects.

It's overlooked because in true Canonical fashion they went hard in on their not-invented-here-syndrome VCS that nobody asked for or wanted. That and also the integration with Ubuntu and nothing else.

Re:Why GitHub Won by sangnoir on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:39PM (#41491164)
A decent number of larger open source projects self-host.
Re:Why GitHub Won by boredtofears on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:15PM (#41492430)
I've used bitbucket at almost every job I've had. I suspect it's usage is much higher for private companies than people realize - if you've already bought into Atlassian for JIRA or Confluence it makes bitbucket an obvious selection.
Re:Why GitHub Won by ikety on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:26PM (#41492473)
Why is that? Jira github integration is nice and simple.
Re:Why GitHub Won by boredtofears on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:50PM (#41492780)
Why wouldn’t it be? Simpler to use first party integration and have centralized user management. Bitbucket works just fine.
Re:Why GitHub Won by consteval on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:35PM (#41493433)
Bitbucket is also just good - legitimately. I prefer the UI for a lot of stuff.
Re:Why GitHub Won by mnau on Monday September 09, 2024 @09:14PM (#41496201)
Everything has at least a mirror on GitHub, but quite a lot of projects are either on GitLab (e.g. KiCad) or self-host (freedesktop).

There is also a lot of stuff on Gitee (China), but due to langauge barrier, it's hard to judge.