Notices by clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la), page 6

"We imported over 100,000 repositories" in ~24 hours https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and-gold-free-for-education-and-open-source/ #gitlab (bear in mind #github has lots of dead/untouched projects)

Oh what the fuck, this shit again? This needs to die... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/06/planned-laws-to-force-tech-firms-to-reveal-encrypted-data

By all means, #movingtogitlab-dot-com does not solve the problem GitHub has (centralization), and moving to a privately hosted GitLab re-introduces the problem GitHub mostly solved (separation).

#GitPub is trying to solve this problem by defining a federation protocol for git services: https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub

Took a while to get it all sorted, but 94% of my repos are now gone from Github. I'm using this script:
https://notabug.org/notklaatu/sync-up
to mirror some stuff only found on Github with other remotes. Working out pretty well so far.

Looks like it was difficult for GitHub to maintain independence: it wasn't profitable for much of 2016: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

@wilfredh I remember reading somewhere (Basecamp's Signal v. Noise blog, maybe?) that they used to be profitable in their pre-VC days, back when they were bootstrapped. They raised money, took the high-growth path, and became unprofitable.

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