Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 2 months agoHow GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystemploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down13
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minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoGoogle “network effect”
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoRelatively minor for source code forges. The reasons everyone uses GitHub: Free, even for private repos. No ads. Free CI - this is huge. Nobody else does this because it costs Microsoft around $100m/year to provide. It’s quite good. If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoCodeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoThey’re clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.
minus-square0x1C3B00DA@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoWhich is one of the reasons behind github’s network effect.
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s not a network effect.
minus-square0x1C3B00DA@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI said its one of the reasons behind the network effect, not the network effect itself. github can offer more freebies, which attracts more users, which makes it more attractive to other users and for existing users to stick around.
Google “network effect”
Relatively minor for source code forges.
The reasons everyone uses GitHub:
If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.
Codeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
They’re clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.
Which is one of the reasons behind github’s network effect.
That’s not a network effect.
I said its one of the reasons behind the network effect, not the network effect itself. github can offer more freebies, which attracts more users, which makes it more attractive to other users and for existing users to stick around.