Open Source @lemmy.ml ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ @lemmy.ml 7d ago

Organic Maps successfully migrates to Forgejo after GitHub blocks them

mastodon.social Organic Maps (@organicmaps@mastodon.social)

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo@floss.social). Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us: - 54k commits - 9.5k issues - 4.3k pull requests - 100k comments Everything moved. Nothing left behind. https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

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What happened? Why did github block them?
- OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
  
  🎉 sometimes US sanctions actually do lead to positive outcomes :)
  
  Thank you. Would you mind explaining what this means please? What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?
  
  contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place
  
  Which sanctioned country? There are several of them.
  
  https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/github-and-trade-controls
  
  🙄
Anything that follows the fascist US regime's laws should be boycotted. Congrats to OrganicMaps for ditching Github.
Was just about to post this before @yogthos@lemmy.ml beat me to the punch. 🙂👍

Why are so many projects still on Microsoft-owned github? They should follow OM's lead.
- Visibility :/
  
  No one goes for source unless they have recommendation or use it and it wouldn't matter in those cases where it is hosted.
  
  Lot's use Github, but it doesn't matter. Lots hate Microsoft too.
- Github is basically social media but for tech nerds. Social media networks naturally monopolize, as they primarily have value because everyone else is already there. If you put your project on Github and it is popular you might get 2k "stars" and regular pull requests. If you put your project on an alternative you might get 10X less of both. So people make decisions about the trade-offs between exposure and avoiding Microsoft
  
  I think we all know this, but it's the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.
I’m out of the loop. Why did github “block” Organic Maps?
- One of the contributors was in a country that the USA likes to bully with sanctions.
  
  There is a comment on this post with a link to Mastodon for Organic Maps
Thanks for posting this. I was able to get my obtanium source changed. Really annoying though. Fuck Microsoft!
Only issue is no federation support on forgejo. I know they are working and wish goodluck to them!! So excited
- looks that way
Downloading the app just because of this
Today you need to be independent. I hope other projects will follow suit.

P.S. GitHub has announced a limit of 100,000 repositories per user or organization account. The limit will take effect on April 28.
Nice, looks like they are self hosting then?
Huh? What happens to my issue then?
- Looks like issues transferred over

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