Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure? - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15691030

As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus.

For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don’t we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.

Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances.

So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?

  • thisfro@slrpnk.net
    5·
    6 months ago

    Gitlab: For profit (wouldn’t say it’s much better than github)
    Codeberg: Donations
    Notabug: unclear

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      5·
      6 months ago

      Gitlab: For profit (wouldn’t say it’s much better than github)

      It’s got that added excitement that comes with a risk of someone doing a rm -rf on the production DB