Git repos don’t really take many resources to host, look at Forgejo, also, the RAM shortage is very much artificial, there is no lack of RAM, it’s just that it’s all being sold all to a few companies
Still learning git but apparently there’s some “power features”, and, aside from that, it’s the same BS network effect that keeps everyone on all the abusive platforms.
Discoverability, it’s where all the other people already stashed their code, sunk cost, etc…
I’m not much of a programmer, but why arern’t more people just using GitLab instead of GitHub?
We’d have an even bigger RAM shortage if so.
Git repos don’t really take many resources to host, look at Forgejo, also, the RAM shortage is very much artificial, there is no lack of RAM, it’s just that it’s all being sold all to a few companies
Selfhosting Gitlab takes a bazillion RAMs lol. I think I got it up to 12gb idling without doing anything.
Job recruiters get scared.
Network effect / discoverability and free CI time
Still learning git but apparently there’s some “power features”, and, aside from that, it’s the same BS network effect that keeps everyone on all the abusive platforms.
Discoverability, it’s where all the other people already stashed their code, sunk cost, etc…
Siiiigh…
Why go from corporate to corporate platform? Codeberg exists.
Self hosted gitlab is pretty nice, sucks that some features are still paywalled and it’s been getting somewhat bloated after 18.x tho
You can look into selfhosting Forgejo! No paywalls, and super fast, especially compared to Gitlab
Afaik on github you get quite powerful runners for free