On #MicrosoftGitHub — where all good projects slowly turn to poop.

DIRECT PRACTICAL PROBLEMS with #MicrosoftGithub

#HumanaCollabora: "A survey shows a significant number of #bugReports are withheld when a #bugTracker is a restrictive or politically controversial #walledGarden like #MSGithub or #gitlab. This affects the quality of #FOSS software.

MSGithub is:
- tor-hostile according to #TorProject,
- hostile to #burnerAccounts — and enforces it. BurnerAccounts are important for privacy because…(1/3)

@witchescauldron Sorry to hear that you lost your XMPP server in the fire.

This is why we support decentralised platforms like #Peertube as much as possible. Its only a matter of time until there is a #federated version of #MicrosoftGithub/#Gitlab. That is the next frontier for #ActivityPub in our view.

Periodic reminder to move your free software projects out of Microsoft GitHub.

Here's my collection of public free software hosting sites.
https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/Free_Software/Hosting

Self-hosting a Gitea instance is also a good option if you have a server.

#MicrosoftGitHub #GitHub #FreeSoftware #Gitea