cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52903710

Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I’m assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

  • Voxel@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 days ago
    1. Codeberg allows you to make private repos.
    2. They don’t like being used as external storage, as this is not what they’re providing this service for to the community. I think the same applies to GitHub and Gitlab, that using them as a external storage is not very ethical and may violate the ToS.
    3. A personal Forgejo instance for such purposes would be a good idea.
    • 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 days ago

      You are right that Codeberg allows private repos. As I said, this was a couple of years ago. Not sure if it was different back then. I just remember Gitlab being less restrictive about their private repo policy and since I wasn’t really sure about my requirements I chose Gitlab over Codeberg. Yes, their whole mission is to support FOSS and private repos contradict that and just creates a burden for hosting on their side, so it is totally understandable.